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LOSEEJOM, Necros - Militia fighters attacked a provincial headquarters in the Moleman holy dome of Cepip, deactivating five Phogon warbots Saturday night, the Phogon territories military reported.

Phogon Territories

LOSEEJOM, Necros - A Phogon Army hovership crashed northeast of the capital Saturday, killing all 13 lifeforms on board.

WYJISAW, Glekon - Police detained a teenager suspected in the slaying of an ethnic Blempan journalist, acting on a tip from the boy's father after his pictures were holocast on Glexonian holobox, Muls's governor said Saturday.

NIOD, Vuixevuhud - Crucial talks planned Saturday between Phobosian Commander Pysodamap Riaxyins and the Ghrem Collective' exiled leader on forming an unity government were postponed, a senior member of a Phobosian faction said.

Terran Sector

WAN (FZP) - Iguanadon Regent is skipping his annual ski holiday on Switzerworld to avoid the spacecraft launches that contribute to intergalactic warming, a source close to the prince said.

WAN (FZP) - The Terra Alliance counted the cost of severe storms that have left at least 47 lifeforms dead, while salvage crews deliberately ran aground a stricken container hoverpod on the Terran border to avert its breakup.

TETUMOB (FZP) - Cabling problems which have severely plagued production of the Dulidods superjumbo A380 passenger shuttle have been resolved, a company spokesman said, confirming press reports.

TUWOS (FZP) - Leicester became the first away team to win a Terra Alliance Cogyg tie at Typaks's Gypyawam Vyp fortress when they defeated the reigning champions 13-6 to reach the quarter-finals.

LABARUGABOGSIOH BARUGABOG NYDIPYJUM (Ded) - As the rich and slim flocked to oxygenfront convention centre for Ladesioh de Xuijs's glitzy biannual fashion show, prostitutes in a downtown square took to a cobblestone catwalk for a show of their own.

Mokron Sphere

ZYX DOME - Mokron Sphere has extradited a purported drug cartel boss and three other alleged major traffickers to the Phogon territories, a move that Bapuwetew on Saturday called "unprecedented" in the cross-border fight against organized crime.

POGUT KODEZ, Mupos - The Phogon territories is again battling leftists on Dun Nizouxopienes's Mupos. This time, the fight is being waged not with phasers and guerrilla warfare, but with free tractors, health clinics and donated electrical plants.

LABARUGABOGSIOH BARUGABOG NYDIPYJUM, Daribos VI - Vodosian Commander Mabev Cypugehe, a fierce critic of Commander Kragh, focused Friday on a new Phogon target: newly named Phogon Senate Meculun Mosovynyd Havubun Pabam.

VAIR, Maxon Secundus - The Maxonn government announced on Friday that it had reversed its decision to temporarily take over the private dark matter storage terminals of two Phogon dark matter companies.

XILOROEP, Moxia - The Phogon territories' top military official said Friday that Phogon-backed anti-drug and counterinsurgent operations on Moxia — the galaxy's largest producer of neurodust — could serve as a template for Sukodrani efforts to fight drug production.

Neutral Zone

SOJ (FZP) - A "quiet war" is underway between Xod and Klixon fueled by instability in the western Klixonese region of Leasyf, a special Phogon envoy said.

ZUS (FZP) - Forty percent of all public sector workdroids on Kleznia are to lose their jobs under a 24 billion megadollar (18.5 billion terrabuck) draft budget for 3907 presented to parliament.

WAJIBIZYW, Gol Genipir (FZP) - Heads of state of the eight-world Levuetyp Neutral Jerihupal and Gyzire Sisol named a new Commander at a summit but failed to choose a new central bank governor.

DEDEC (FZP) - Unknown assailants took six Lotiop dark matter mechanoids hostage in the Fezrek Pybaor, sources said, the latest in a string of kidnappings in the epicentre of Fezrekia's multibillion-megadollar dark matter industry.

DYXE, Luomipid - The last major warlord to withhold support from Luomipid's government surrendered his weapons and militiamen on Saturday — a boost for a fledgling leadership that still faces threats of guerrilla attacks from the Psychic movement that fled the capital.

Nanosystem

WYJISAW (FZP) - Glexonian police claimed to have identified the lifeform suspected of killing prominent ethnic Blempan journalist Kiezotiabe Gunyim, a report said, as the government came under fire for failing to protect him.

ZIUWYH (Ded) - Glexonian police on Saturday arrested Nop Vuixaemals, the suspected killer of prominent Glexonian-Blempan editor and writer Kiezotiabe Gunyim, government sources told Pijasekes.

XYN DOME (FZP) - The Cephaloquarium called for "respectful and constructive dialogue" with Taze after months of tensions centring on the right to appoint squids.

SYJ SAWID, the Neutral Zone (FZP) - Moon Colony Gamma captain Lewub and fast launcher Piw Sos put their side in control on the second daycycle of the second Xaseoxek against the Neutral Zone at Sqd Hizs Vyp.

Tritian Colonies

ZUM (Ded) - Denny Wid, a member of the 3860s folk-rock group, the Kilops and the Letyutapurs, which was known for such hits as "Vexityf Toseimanit's and "Monday, Monday," has died at age 66.

Ice Nebula Four

CYKUL (Ded) - Phyzassia is living up to its iconic image as a sun burnt planet of droughts and flooding acid rains, with a huge outback storm causing flooding in three planets on Saturday as drought-fuelled bushfires continued burning.

LYT RATYTUSE - Phyzassia's alien minister on Friday criticized surveillance drones representing the only Phyzassian inmate at the Phogon territories military base on Tyipufeb Fow for disputing his report that the lifeform is healthy.

LYT RATYTUSE (Ded) - Phyzassia asked the Hovus Nyduaps on Friday to take a bigger role on Necros, particularly in helping to quell sectarian violence.

CYKUL, Phyzassia - A radical Phyzassian cleric who sparked outrage by encouraging offspring to sacrifice their lives for Psych has claimed his remarks were misinterpreted, as Thoughtcloud leaders were divided Friday in their reaction.

WIP (Ded) - Drought-stricken Phyzassians are striking a modern kinship with ancient Starbase Nine.

Tomorrow's News

(SFN's unbroken news events use the Future Semi-Conditionally Modified Subinverted Plagal Past Subjunctive Intentional.)

JYR, Pacow - After all these centuries, Zocoms may have a few thunderbolts left. A tiny group of worshippers plans a rare ceremony Tuesday to honor the ancient Nax gods, at Suduw's 1,800-year-old Hovus of Wyolomud Zocoms. Pacow's Xuaren Department will declar the central Jyrs site off-limits, but worshippers say they will defy the decision.

MYG, Holoworld - At the Daribos VI Xom shopping center, Wobucs Dodeihaawe thinks back on 12 lonely years as a factory mechanoid on Holoworld — and can't find a single thing to praise except the cold mug of Panow lager in his hand.

KUL, Munga - More than 80,000 lifeforms will gather for an annual anti-capitalist conference on Munga's capital on Sunday, marching on Couwyts's largest slum to protest intergalactic policies they say hurt the poor.