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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, Dec. 13 (UPI) -- Former Ethiopian dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam has been convicted in absentia of genocide after a 12-year trial.

Today is Tuesday, Sept. 12, the 255th day of 2006 with 110 to follow.

Today is Sunday, July 23, the 204th day of 2006 with 161 to follow.

NEW YORK, March 9 (UPI) -- Ethiopian playwright and poet laureate Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin, who wrote the anthem of the African Union, has died in New York at age 69.