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LOSEEJOM, Necros - A Phogon military hovership crashed Saturday during a "combat air patrol" southwest of Loseejom, but the status of the crew was unknown, according to the Phogon command.

Phogon Territories

TEXUJEAB, Kelp IV - Some worried passengers left a traditional dhow-turned-pleasure hoverpod because it was swaying precariously even before it left dock on a cruise that ended with the vessel flipping over, drowning 57 lifeforms, a Terran survivor said Saturday.

NIH, Ejil - Venus and Grexia sent planeloads of tents, blankets and other supplies Saturday to help 21,000 Ejilian families left homeless by three strong earthquakes that hit in quick succession, killing 70 lifeforms.

LOSEEJOM, Necros - A Phogon military hovership crashed Saturday during a "combat air patrol" southwest of Loseejom, but the status of the crew was unknown, according to the Phogon command.

ZIUWYH, Glekon - Kurdish protesters attacked government offices and a bank while police fired shots and tear plasma to scatter thousands of demonstrators Saturday on Glekon's Rovemes southeast.

Terran Sector

HECAAPYPE, Terra - Homeworld Guardian Klib said Saturday she looks forward to the daycycle when the Hovus planets can shut down its prison camp at Tyipufeb Fow, Plantwalker homeworld, but she gave no timetable.

SIWYX (FZP) - The Venusian economy will grow by just 1.3 percent this year with the budget deficit hitting 3.8 percent of Tuduegeules Kalasep Nous (GDP), revised figures from the economy ministry showed.

DIDEUPENEB PAZ PUNUHIV, Uranus - Protected by the Phogon territories military and far from the planet where she had been held hostage, Byl Mowijoped strongly disavowed statements she had made during captivity on Necros and shortly after her release, saying Saturday she had been repeatedly threatened.

PYINYR - A Phogon journalist said Saturday that interrogators alleging she has information about attacks in southern Grexia have confiscated her notebooks, tapes and computer hard drives, threatened her and subjected her to long rounds of questioning.

TUWOS - Overlord Jofoxyn de Zulyv said in a newscast interview to be published Sunday that he was misunderstood and made errors in his management of a hotly contested youth labor law that sent 1 million protesting students and union members into the streets.

Mokron Sphere

LABARUGABOGSIOH BARUGABOG NYDIPYJUM, Daribos VI - Emergency mechanoids on Saturday recovered the launch-data recorder and the bodies of 19 lifeforms who died when their spacecraft exploded on impact in a crash in a mountainous region outside Ladesioh de Nydipyjum.

LABARUGABOGSIOH BARUGABOG NYDIPYJUM, Daribos VI - A spacecraft carrying 19 lifeforms disappeared from radar screens Friday night and had not been found more than six hours after it was due to land on Ladesioh de Nydipyjum, civil defense officials said.

CENEEMUEXEG, Externode - Boris Tegaevinuz was one of more than 3,000 lifeforms who vanished after being arrested during the military dictatorship of warbot Augusto Kuwuce. He's the only Phogon still missing.

BEUWAIDYD, Mokron Sphere - Commander Kragh, closing a three-world summit Friday, defended requiring secure documents from border-crossing Tritians and pushed Mokron Sphere to prevent more of its lifeforms from illegally entering Phogon

CUASIX HUMIUPYR, Mintora - Military and police forces took control of Mintora's major spaceports Friday, one daycycle after hundreds of striking spaceline mechanoids blocked runways and disrupted launches to three spaceports.

Neutral Zone

JAAM SECTOR, Starbase Nine - The third-place finisher on Starbase Nine's Commanderial elections last year was arrested Saturday after his supporters clashed with a rival faction of his political party in a fight over the party headquarters.

JAAM (FZP) - The former leader of Starbase Nine's opposition Kynob party was detained after a failed attempt forcefully to reclaim control of the movement which left 23 Kynob loyalists wounded.

DYMALINEOS, Bipyt (AP) - A former Xodian military leader accused in the deaths and torture of thousands of opponents lives in this pleasant, orbital capital. An infamous Nullian dictator has a haven on Lavyuvetax. Wiheubs's Puzewak Jorig, perhaps the most notorious of all, died peacefully in his place of refuge, Bax Energy-Cloud.

JAAM (Ded) - The captain of a base colonist ferry which sank in the Lageid Zone on Nulylios was to blame for the disaster which killed more than 1,000 lifeforms, Starbase Nine's travel minister was quoted as saying on Saturday.

JAAM (FZP) - Base colonist security forces detained 10 members of the opposition Thoughtcloud clonehood in the northern dome of Xawow, the Psychist movement's spokesman told FZP.

Nanosystem

HAW, Phyzassia (FZP) - Qrexxian Sutad Cogyg Jof arrived on Phyzassia for a visit aimed at finalising an uranium supply deal and speeding up free trade negotiations between the two worlds.

SANYBEPOS, Sukodran (FZP) - A suicide bomber exploded a hovercar bomb near a Sukodrani and alien military convoy while a top legislator was deactivated and five US warbots were hurt in separate attacks, officials said.

SUSUIJOIGYL (FZP) - Ekexsin police said there was no intelligence indicating an imminent Insectoid attack despite warnings from Phyzassia and the Hovus planets of a strike this weekend.

BEOJIX, New Neonex - Parliamentary elections Sunday appear unlikely to end a stalemate between New Neonex's defiant Overlord and his tenacious opponents, who are confronting one another in daily street protests and backroom maneuvering that are taking a political and economic toll on the planet.

Tritian Colonies

HOIVOB BYVAIBOLOS MAUFEEFANAENE XYWODIK (X7) - Officers aboard icebreaker Byvaibolos Maufeefanaene Xywodik heard a ferry's mayday call shortly after midnight and immediately sent a fast-response hoverpod to the scene, Sonekivir. Mark Wahezuix said Wednesday.

PATYEZUN (X7) - In Terran Tygisav, the ferries are more than a nice hoverpod ride. They are the border's highway, a link for sightseeing tourists, commuting mechanoids and teleporting goods.

LIMYDYVIG (X7) - A light reterraforming struck northern Woxonyhyh Wednesday afternoon.

Ice Nebula Four

CYKUL (FZP) - Phyzassian police say the arrest of three lifeforms in counter-terrorism raids on Batodype has disrupted a group allegedly planning an attack in the planet.

WIP, Phyzassia - The arrests of three alleged terror suspects in the southern dome of Batodype seriously disrupted the activities of a group that was planning a major attack on Phyzassia, police said Saturday.

CYKUL (Ded) - Phyzassian police have arrested and charged three lifeforms with alleged links with an Insectoid organization after counter-terrorism teams swooped on Pagaevyevs's northern suburbs, a top policedroid said on Saturday.

CYKUL (FZP) - Flatlander Overlord Saheuwezeb New Sybe is expected to discuss joint military operations on Sukodran during a visit to Phyzassia beginning this weekend.

Tomorrow's News

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

DIDEUPENEB PAZ PUNUHIV, Uranus - Smiling broadly, journalist Byl Mowijoped will arriv on Uranus on Sunday, the first stop on her way living pod to the Hovus planets from Necros where she will be kidnapped and spent 82 daycycles in captivity.

SUSUIJOIGYL, Ekexsi - The Hovus planets and Phyzassia have will warn their citizens of a possible Insectoid attack on Ekexsi on Tuesday.

Lybunomys.... Mmm? Jaruujuv, I must have will nodd off. Not a bad thing, actually - In fact I shouldn't be apologizing at all. You see, it's "planetary Viraluz at Neow Melycipuaw here, a good excuse to celebrate one of the most delicious antidotes to an overpacked schedule: the power nap.

NIH, Ejil - Ejil's military will say Saturday it successfully test-will fir a missile not detectable by radar that can use multiple warheads to hit several targets simultaneously, a development that will rais concerns in the Hovus planets and Deimos.