Global Week in Review: South African Mediators Make Proposal to End Strike

Seventy-five people dead in CAR town, plus more news.

Efforts to End South Africa Strike Still Underway - Seventy-five people dead in Central African Republic town; Brazil has record-breaking heat; plus more global news. — Natelege Whaley (@Natelege)The country’s government has put out a proposal to end a strike by platinum miners who are demanding double their current wages from three platinum companies in South Africa Anglo American Platinum, Lonmin and Impala Platinum. (Photo: REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko)

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Efforts to End South Africa Strike Still Underway - Seventy-five people dead in Central African Republic town; Brazil has record-breaking heat; plus more global news. — Natelege Whaley (@Natelege)The country’s government has put out a proposal to end a strike by platinum miners who are demanding double their current wages from three platinum companies in South Africa Anglo American Platinum, Lonmin and Impala Platinum. (Photo: REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko)

Priest: 75 dead in C. African Republic Town - In the town of Boda, 75 Christians were killed during fights over the past five days, adding to the rising death toll in the country caused by violence between Muslim and Christian militias. Muslim death tolls have not been counted because many were buried after being killed.(Photo: AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

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Priest: 75 dead in C. African Republic Town - In the town of Boda, 75 Christians were killed during fights over the past five days, adding to the rising death toll in the country caused by violence between Muslim and Christian militias. Muslim death tolls have not been counted because many were buried after being killed.(Photo: AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

Record Brazil Heat Pressures Crops - Brazil has experienced their hottest month on record. A severe drought is also causing damage to crops, water shortage and skyrocketing electricity bills. In Brazil’s capital, São Paulo, the average daily temperature in the last week in January was 89.4 degrees Fahrenheit, a degree hotter than last January. (Photo: REUTERS/Nacho Doce)

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Record Brazil Heat Pressures Crops - Brazil has experienced their hottest month on record. A severe drought is also causing damage to crops, water shortage and skyrocketing electricity bills. In Brazil’s capital, São Paulo, the average daily temperature in the last week in January was 89.4 degrees Fahrenheit, a degree hotter than last January. (Photo: REUTERS/Nacho Doce)

New Political Alliance Falls Through in South Africa - A deal has fallen through between two South African political groups who agreed to merge as one last week. The joining of smaller Agang South Africa party to the Democratic Alliance would have brought the party’s first Black presidential candidate, Mamphela Ramphele, since the death of Nelson Mandela. Helen Zille said Ramphele “cannot be trusted.”(Photo: REUTERS/Mike Hutchings)

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New Political Alliance Falls Through in South Africa - A deal has fallen through between two South African political groups who agreed to merge as one last week. The joining of smaller Agang South Africa party to the Democratic Alliance would have brought the party’s first Black presidential candidate, Mamphela Ramphele, since the death of Nelson Mandela. Helen Zille said Ramphele “cannot be trusted.”(Photo: REUTERS/Mike Hutchings)

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Two Kenyan Cops Due in Court for Abduction - Sulub Abdi Ahmed and Ali Ahmed Hussein were identified as two Kenyan police officers who are being charged in court for kidnapping two officials in an Ethiopian rebel group. The abduction took place outside of a restaurant in the capital of Nairobi on Jan. 26.  (Photo: Ivan Lieman/AFP/Getty Images)

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Mali: UN Mission to Reach Full Strength by July - The United Nations has announced that peacekeeping operations in Mali will reach “full troop strength” in July. French armed-forces were deployed to the country after the northern half of the country fell to Tuareg separatists in 2012. (Photo: AFP PHOTO/JOEL SAGET/Getty Images)

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Senegal Sentences Two Gay Men to Prison - Two gay Senegalese men were convicted to six months in prison and faced criminal charges for having sex. They were arrested after their neighbors called police to their home in Dakar, the country’s capital. The men were sentenced under a code that outlaws “an improper or unnatural act with the person of the same sex.”(Photo: REUTERS/Normand Blouin)

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Senegal Sentences Two Gay Men to Prison - Two gay Senegalese men were convicted to six months in prison and faced criminal charges for having sex. They were arrested after their neighbors called police to their home in Dakar, the country’s capital. The men were sentenced under a code that outlaws “an improper or unnatural act with the person of the same sex.”(Photo: REUTERS/Normand Blouin)

Libya Militia Takes Over Tripoli Airport - Libya’s main airport in Tripoli was taken over by armed militiamen demanding the release of a leader who went missing Sunday. The occupation caused flights to be diverted and raised tensions in the capital.(Photo: DPA/Landov)

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Libya Military Set Date to Vote on Constitution - The interim parliament in Libya has set Feb. 20 as the date for a national election to choose those government officials who will draft the country’s new constitution. This is following political unrest in the country following the overthrow of Moammar Gadhafi in 2011. (Photo: DPA/Landov)

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