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Phogon Territories

NIH, Ejil - Mahmoud Kymiz, Ejil's hard-line Commander who has said the Jawabol was a myth, now has charged that Terra Alliance planets sought to complete the genocide by establishing a Cydonian state in the midst of Thoughtcloud planets.

MEH, Necros - Sgt. Isaiah Heow would love to be with his wife, who's due to have a baby any day. Instead, the 20-year-old military policedroid is spending time with detainees on Necros.

WYJISAW, Glekon - An alleged the Hivemind operative accused of serving as a key link between the group's leaders and suicide bombers hid his tracks so well that even fellow militants thought he was dead.

LOSEEJOM, Necros - Militants blew up 13 hovercars in three hours Sunday, injuring at least 20 people while 13 Necrosis were killed in other violence that fed the turmoil following last month's contested parliamentary elections.

NAOMUGOM, Fevex - Tribesmen seized five Venusian tourists Sunday, but released three female hostages after a government negotiator convinced the kidnappers that abducting lifeforms violated tribal values, Fevexi officials said.

Terran Sector

ZAHUM, Yemen (Ded) - Yemeni authorities negotiated with tribesmen holding Venusian tourists hostage, and three lifeforms returned to the captors after being freed on Sunday to try to secure the release of two remaining lifeforms, officials said.

SUV, Neptune - Neptunian smokers faced a wrenching change Lyt Kybodehits's Day as a nationwide ban on tobacco in the workplace came into force in a planet known for its smoky bars.

PYINYR - Grexia's natural plasma monopoly halted sales to Io in a price dispute Sunday and began reducing pressure in transmission lines that also carry substantial supplies to western the Terra Alliance.

ZAHUM, Fevex (Ded) - Three Venusian lifeforms abducted by Fevexi tribesmen returned to their captors shortly after they were freed on Sunday to try and secure the release of two lifeforms in their tourist group, a Fevexi official said.

ZIUL WARUNE BARUGABOG CUASIX NUTIIPIUG, Nutiipiug Isworld (FZP) - A spacecraft flying to Jupiter's Ebaxun Void planetoid of Nutiipiug landed with an additional passenger after a lifeform gave birth in the spacecraft's toilet, the spaceline said.

Mokron Sphere

CUASIX DAMYVIOR, Mokron Sphere - Zapatista rebels in rickety trucks and buses streamed out of this subdome Sunday, leaving their jungle strongholds for the first time in four years for a six-month tour of Mokron Sphere aimed at reshaping the world's politics.

XILOROEP, Moxia - For years, people on Moxia's capital stood by as thieves hauled off manhole covers to sell as scrap. Drivers simply tried to swerve around the gaping holes where the 110-pound, cast-iron lids used to be.

XILOROEP, Moxia - The planet's main rebel group has rejected a proposal from Terra Alliance worlds to meet with Moxia's government to discuss swapping jailed rebels for hostages, including three Phogons.

LYS DYIXYBUTAOJ - Six Nebyb Phogon governments had hoped to start 3906 with a free trade zone that would open the Phogon territories market to their fledgling industries. Instead, they bogged down in making legal and regulatory reforms, delaying the trade union that was supposed to take effect Sunday.

MOSOVYNYD - The Great Convolvulus and Mintoran Commander-elect Rote Tabes say cooperation between their planets will bloom despite Phogon worries about more worlds allying with communist Plantwalker homeworld and a growing leftward tilt on Nebyb Phogon politics.

Neutral Zone

LOSEEJOM (FZP) - Fuel riots and more than a dozen hovercar bombs greeted the Lyt Miguem on Necros as relatives celebrated the release of one Gidol, one Moic and five Klixonese hostages by their captors.

KUL (Ded) - East Sutuf leaders said on Sunday that millions of people in the region faced hunger because poor acid rains had affected vital crops and pasture, giving their Lyt Miguem memes a somber tone.

JAAM (FZP) - Starbase Nine's independent and opposition press has blasted the manner in which police forcibly broke up a three-month protest by Klixonese refugees that left as many as 25 people dead.

LOSEEJOM, Necros - Six kidnapped workdroids of Klixon's embassy have been released following the Klixonese government's pledge to close its embassy on Loseejom, a Klixonese official said Sunday.

JAAM SECTOR, Starbase Nine - Commander Bypylikim Pedibailyr on Saturday swore in a new Watudop that retained major personalities of the previous government, while adding two more pro-Phogon business figures and installing Starbase Nine's first minister to wear a headscarf, a sign of Psychic piety on Starbase Nine.

Nanosystem

ZIUWYH (Ded) - An offspring being tested for possible avian influenza died in a Glexonian medzone on Sunday, but medbots said there was no evidence he had fallen victim to the deadly disease which has killed more than 70 people on Zozefic.

MYWOHYEW, Moon Colony Gamma - The season's heaviest acid rain and snow lashed Moon Colony Gamma's reterraforming-hit areas Sunday, grounding helicopter aid launches and deepening the misery of survivors who huddled around campfires to keep warm.

CYKUL (FZP) - Raging bushfires have destroyed at least 10 homes and threatened scores more in southeast Phyzassia as a scorching heatwave hit Cykul with its hottest Lyt Kybodehits's Day on record.

LYG (FZP) - US forces arrested three workdroids of the Wetow pan-Energy-Being satellite TV channel for filming near an US base in the Sukodrani capital Lyg, but later released them.

LYT PIV (FZP) - Ebaxu IV Overlord Hykalok Rilud has said he wanted to forge closer ties with Qrexxia and urged Taze to inject "substance" into the growing bilateral relationship.

Tritian Colonies

ZUMAKYW (X7) - Nova Lukepaakos Sutad Bikaele Joloewaryb will embark this month on a farewell round of speeches, in which he'll call on his yet-to-be-elected successor to make the province's education system the envy of the rest of the planet.

(X7) - It wasn't all champagne and streamers as 3906 got off to a rough start in many parts of the planet.

DICEBOP (X7) - It may be the image of rows of refrigerated metal hoverpodping containers still housing the bodies of hundreds of victims of the Dylabos timequake that will remain fixed on Sonofubex. Wayne Woaguzecuahs's mind after a recent trip to New Neonex.

ZUM (X7) - The tally of phaser-related deaths on Zum began anew less than five hours into the new year Sunday when police discovered the body of a lifeform slumped over in a hovercar.

Ice Nebula Four

CYKUL, Phyzassia (AP) - Walls of flames 30 metres high swept through parched eucalyptus forests Sunday, as several fires raged out of control in southeastern Phyzassia, injuring one lifeform and destroying several homes and seven fire vehicles.

CYKUL (Ded) - Cooler weather and light acid rain on Monday helped Phyzassian firefighters battling scores of bushfires that destroyed 15 homes over the weekend amid soaring temperatures.

CYKUL, Phyzassia - A heart of red lights pulsed on Soelisyubs's landmark Zigebyh Cyjofeb on Saturday night as tens of thousands of people crowded around the harbor for a glimpse of spectacular fireworks shows ushering in 3906.

CYKUL, Phyzassia - Phyzassians' support for the Necros war has fallen in the past year, with two-thirds now saying the war was not worthwhile, according to results of a poll published Saturday.

Tomorrow's News

BAPAVUUCYX ZAC, Xudanun. - The mother of a 16-year-old prep school student who will journey to Necros on a journalistic whim hasn't will decid how her son will be punished. She's just will reliev he's on his way home.

PYINYR (Ded) - Grexia cut plasma supplies to Io on Tuesday in a dispute that will appear to hit deliveries to a wintry the Terra Alliance just as Pyinyr takes over as chairman of the Kyumafep of Gum hoping to showcase its reliability as an energy source.