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HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Ian Smith, Rhodesia’s last white prime minister, whose attempts to resist black rule dragged the country now known as Zimbabwe into isolation and civil war, died Tuesday at age 88.

Smith, who recently suffered a stroke, died at a clinic near Cape Town, South Africa, where he spent his final years with his family, according to longtime friend Sam Whaley, who was a senator in the former Rhodesia.

Smith unilaterally declared independence from Britain on November 11, 1965.

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LONDON, England (CNN) — The fifth man involved in a plot to bomb London’s transport network has been handed a 33-year jail sentence, London’s Metropolitan Police confirmed to CNN Tuesday.

Manfo Kwaku Asiedu, 34, admitted to a charge of conspiracy to cause explosion in the failed attack that caused panic across the city, just two weeks after the London bombings in July 2005.

Asiedu, a Ghanaian national living in Britain illegally, was arrested after he gave himself up to police in the aftermath of the attacks.

Four other conspirators have already been sentenced to jail terms of at least 40 years after being convicted of conspiracy to murder.

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BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — The director of the Iraq Geological Survey was among at least five people killed in the Iraqi capital Tuesday, an Interior Ministry official said. (Content Read ‘Iraqi official among 5 killed in Baghdad’…)

(CNN) — A refinery fire believed to have been caused by lightning spread a thick column of black smoke over the South African city of Durban, burning nearly $18 million worth of fuel, the refinery’s spokesman said Tuesday.

In an interview with the South African Press Agency, spokesman Herb Payne said the 45-meter-high (147-foot-high) tank contained 7.5 million liters (1.65 million gallons) of fuel.

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(CNN) — The Saudi Justice Ministry Tuesday issued a "clarification" of a court’s handling of a rape case and the increased punishment — including 200 lashes –meted out to the victim.

The case, which has sparked media scrutiny of the Saudi legal system, centers on a married woman.

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ROME, Italy (AP) — Archaeologists on Tuesday unveiled an underground grotto believed to have been revered by ancient Romans as the place where a wolf nursed the city’s legendary founder Romulus and his twin brother Remus.

Decorated with seashells and colored marble, the vaulted sanctuary is buried 52 feet inside the Palatine hill, the palatial center of power in imperial Rome, the archaeologists said at a news conference.

In the past two years, experts have been probing the space with endoscopes and laser scanners, fearing that the fragile grotto, already partially caved-in, would not survive a full-scale dig, said Giorgio Croci, an engineer who worked on the site.

The archaeologists are convinced that they have found the place of worship where Romans believed a she-wolf suckled Romulus and Remus, the twin sons of the god of war Mars who were abandoned in a basket and left adrift on the Tiber.

Thanks to the wolf, a symbol of Rome to this day, the twins survived, and Romulus founded the city, becoming its first king after killing Remus in a power struggle.

Ancient texts say the grotto known as the "Lupercale" — from "lupa," Latin for she-wolf — was near the palace of Augustus, Rome’s first emperor, who was said to have restored it, and was decorated with a white eagle.

That symbol of the Roman Empire was found atop the sanctuary’s vault, which lies just below the ruins of the palace built by Augustus, said Irene Iacopi, the archaeologist in charge of the Palatine and the nearby Roman Forum.

Augustus, who ruled from the late 1st century B.C.

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(CNN) — The number of people around the world living with the virus that causes AIDS is actually nearly seven million fewer than previous estimates, according to the United Nations.

But while the lower numbers are encouraging, there is still work to be done in the areas of prevention and treatment, especially in sub-Saharan Africa, where 68 percent of those infected with HIV live, the report released by the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and the World Health Organization (WHO) showed.

Better information from more countries prompted the groups to revise the 2006 estimate of 39.5 million people living with HIV to 32.7 million, according to a statement from UNAIDS.

The single biggest factor in the reduction, the report said, was the "recent revision of estimates in India after an intensive reassessment of the epidemic in that country."

Other factors include the revision of estimates in Angola, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria and Zimbabwe, the statement said.

"The data for measuring the HIV epidemic used by UNAIDS/WHO has considerably expanded and improved in recent years," said Ron Brookmeyer, Professor of Biostatistics and Chair of the Master of Public Health Program, The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

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PATHARGHATA, Bangladesh (CNN) — Five days after Cyclone Sidr struck Bangladesh, an overwhelming stench filled the air Tuesday as rotting bodies and animal carcasses floated in pools of stagnant water around the coastal city of Patharghata.

Villagers complained about lack of government help and suggested the official death toll estimates were far lower than the reality they see, according to CNN’s Cal Perry who arrived there Tuesday.

Despite grim assessments from relief workers arriving in previously unreached areas, military chief Gen.

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ROME, Italy (CNN) — A fourth suspect in the killing of a 21-year-old British woman in Italy has been arrested in Germany, Italian police confirmed Tuesday.

Rudy Hermann Guede, 21, of Ivory Coast, was identified after police found a bloody fingerprint on a pillow at the scene of the crime.

Italian police told CNN that Guede had been apprehended on Tuesday morning but refused to confirm where in Germany he had been stopped.

Police said the suspect was arrested in Mainz, near Frankfurt in western Germany.

Investigators found the body of Meredith Kercher half-naked with a stab wound to the neck November 2 at her home in Perugia, where she was studying as an exchange student at the city’s university.

Guede was in the same circle of friends as the three suspects already in custody, a source in Perugia’s prosecutor’s office said, adding that all four are now considered prime suspects in the murder.

According to reports in the British daily newspaper the Daily Telegraph Tuesday, Guede sent the newspaper an e-mail on Monday saying he planned to give himself up to police.

In a message sent through an account on the social networking Web site Facebook page, Guede said "I know that [I am a suspect]", the newspaper reported.

He added: "The reson (sic) I want to talk with police man, cause the news give at me a wrong profile," the newspaper said.

Footage of the suspect on the video-sharing Web site YouTube showed him pulling faces.

The video entitled ‘Boy in Da House’ and dated nine months ago shows Guede sitting on a black sofa dressed in a black pullover.

He is seen poking his tongue out at the camera and pulling his ears.

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