南非教堂委员会参与国家政治已有很久的历史，其主席Jo Seoka主教和其他牧师访问了这座铂矿，听取了矿工们的苦楚。这个颇有影响的组织劝说隆明矿业管理人员坐下来与工人会谈。今天早些时候，该公司下达最后命令，要求工人们回去工作，否则就要被解雇。此前，总统雅各布祖玛的办公室就已担忧工人们可能会在全国哀悼日期间失去工作。

More than 400 African migrants have arrived on the tiny Italian island of Lampedusa in recent days after crossing the Mediterranean by boats. Many of them are from Tunisia and sub-Saharan Africa. On Monday, Italian coast guards rescued further 80 people from an overcrowded dinghy. Last year, tens of thousands of refugees fled the uprisings in Tunisia and Libya by sea.

最近几天，400多名非洲移民乘船横渡地中海来到意大利小岛蓝佩杜萨岛。许多人来自突尼斯和撒哈拉以南非洲。周一，意大利海岸警卫营救了乘坐一艘小船的另外80人。去年，数十万难民因逃避突尼斯和利比亚的暴乱而沿海路逃难。

The US Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has called on his fellow Republican and Congressman Todd Akin to withdraw from the race for a senate seat over controversial remarks he made about rape. From Washington, Jenner Bryon reports.

美国共和党总统候选人米特·罗姆尼呼吁他的共和党同僚兼国会议员Todd Akin退出参议员职位的竞选，原因Todd有关强奸的言论引起了轩然大波。Jenner Bryon在华盛顿报道。