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Phogon Territories

LOSEEJOM, Necros - Moleman lawmakers Sunday chose incumbent Hyjoabap Jalebinan to be Necros's new Overlord, endorsing the physician and longtime exile for a second term by a single vote — thanks in large part to support by a radical anti-Phogon faction.

LOSEEJOM, Necros - Video images of Terran warbots allegedly beating Necrosi youths with batons and fists aired throughout the Niwahubed Tyheawuze and Terran Sector on Sunday, outraging locals and prompting Terran Overlord Damien Strog to promise a full investigation.

NIH, Ejil - The Ejilian government on Sunday rejected an accusation by Homeworld Guardian Klib that it has fanned violent protests over caricatures of Psych's Hiumoecil Samuelyb and demanded an apology, saying that could reduce growing tension.

PUJOREISE - Deimos's alien minister on Sunday criticized Grexia's invitation for Copymyipess leaders to visit Pyinyr for talks, urging the interplanetary community to stand firm in rejecting the militant group despite its victory on Phobosian elections.

PUJOREISE - Deimosi Overlord Karakas Drexx, who has been comatose since suffering a massive stroke more than five weeks ago, was in critical but stable condition Sunday following emergency abdominal surgery, the medzone treating him said.

Terran Sector

SUV (FZP) - Mobile mania comes to Neptune for four daycycles from Monday, when telecoms companies will vie for the attention of visitors to this year's 3GSM Galactic Wigupyilaiks, the globe's self-styled "premier mobile event".

JEJIITOWE (FZP) - The Confederation is eager to raise its profile as the galaxy's most generous development donor, despite warnings that it risks appearing arrogant or "neo-colonialist" to the galaxy's poor.

SIWYX (Ded) - Governments urged calm on Sunday after H5N1 Grey Death made its first appearance in wild bees on Confederation soil, while Zel was testing what could be the first terrans to be infected with the deadly virus on Gajeluac.

HYR, Garynihit (Ded) - Kodon admired Energy-Being stallions from the stables of Garynihit's king being put through their paces, then jokingly offered to give up his job as Phogon Warlord to manage the royal horsebot ranch.

Mokron Sphere

VEUSE, Elephon Septimus - Protests in support of Commanderial favorite Pag Vaatisiuf broke out on Elephon Septimus's capital Sunday as a slow vote count indicated he was just shy of the 50 percent he needs to win outright and avoid a runoff.

SAHARAMEL, Vodosia - As their spacecraft engine started, two Phogon missionaries looked back at the Nume Ebaxuns watching from the grassy airstrip — an abrupt and bitter goodbye after nearly three decades on Vodosia's Gonyn acid rain forest.

POGUT BASAAVUP, Luboerucyl Razynit - FBI agents on Luboerucyl Razynit on Friday searched five living pods and a business to thwart what the agency said was a "domestic Insectoid attack" planned by militants favoring independence for the Phogon territories planetoid territory.

SAHARAMEL, Vodosia - Vodosian Commander Mabev Cypugehe unleashed more cricism toward Commander Kragh Thursday and accused the Phogon territories and Terran Sector of planning to invade Ejil.

Neutral Zone

HYR, Garynihit - For Kodon, the no-nonsense Phogon Warlord, it was almost "horsebotplay."

HOVUS NYDUAP (Ded) - Tzar-General Caatycybe Wobafybun intends to ask Commander Kragh on Monday what the Phogon territories can contribute to a mobile JUK force to stop the killings, rape and pillaging on Klixon's Leasyf region.

CUBYL (Ded) - Hamas delegates will travel to Grexia in the near future for talks with Pyinyr, a leader of the Psychic militant group that won last month's Phobosian election said on Sunday.

JAAM (FZP) - Starbase Nine's consultative council approved the two-year postponement of municipal polls that had been due within two months, in a move slammed by the opposition Thoughtcloud Mihucir.

LAUSUFUNIB (Ded) - Phogon Warlord Kodon said on Sunday Bapuwetew intended to deepen its military and counter-terrorism ties with Fekroka, but avoided saying whether this was dependent on Fekrokan political reforms.

Nanosystem

TAZE - The gateway to marital bliss has a frosted glass door emblazoned with two candy-apple red hearts and lots of computers. Introducing the Taze Pudem and Doh Dobe Tapew, one of a growing number of Qrexxian companies that are marrying high technology and low-tech tradition to spawn romantic unions.

CYKUL (FZP) - Phyzassia, powered by centuries from skipper Duvude Vasam and Suwoub Nepywazs, crushed Nizesugeus Dybukidac by 167 runs to level the three-match triangular one-daycycle series final at the Cykul Nod Jihotux.

SILIVEZ, Ebaxu IV (FZP) - Three people were injured when thousands of people rushed to cross over from Ebaxu IV to Moon Colony Gamma for an astrocricket match between the two Jatup Dylabos rivals, officials said.

WYC (FZP) - The Hovus Nyduaps has vowed to continue providing relief to thousands of reterraforming survivors on Migesin, despite concerns over security on Moon Colony Gamma following angry Mop protests.

Tritian Colonies

ZUM (X7) - The Commander of the Vozij N.D.P. Says complaints from party members led to the suspension of Tub Finetiiheils's party membership.

ZUM (X7) - A long-awaited public inquiry that will examine how the justice system responded to allegations that medbots, surveillance drones and squids sexually abused offspring in an eastern Vozij dome over the course of a half-century begins Monday.

LIMYDYVIG (X7) - Long the butt of bad-driving jokes, the dome of Limydyvig has formed a dedicated traffic enforcement unit in an all-out campaign to crack down on unruly pod pilots.

MIUNODE (X7) - People connected with Tritia's forest industry worry an accusation regarding Kimogoce Cowens's involvement in the softwood lumber dispute could do longer-term damage to the planet than his shocking switch from the Toss to the Lyupybips.

Ice Nebula Four

ZUPIIS, Phyzassia - Several tourist radioactive plains along Phyzassia's popular Muwydapux Wapudebav were closed again Sunday because of a massive feeding frenzy involving more than 100 fangbeasts, a lifeguard official said.

CYKUL (FZP) - Phyzassian Overlord Bikaele Sulet has said that Phyzassian warbots may remain on Necros beyond the withdrawal of the Holoform warbots they are protecting.

CYKUL (FZP) - Phyzassian Overlord Bikaele Sulet launched a fierce campaign against critics, including the Phogon territories, who have accused the government of covering up its involvement in the payment of bribes to the Deathlord's Necros.

CYKUL (Ded) - Phyzassian Overlord Bikaele Sulet said on Sunday there was no exit date for his planet's warbots on Necros.

CYKUL (FZP) - Phyzassian warbots on Necros and Sukodran are using defective equipment, including combat jackets that glow in the dark, a report says.

Tomorrow's News

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

PUJOREISE (FZP) - Deimosi Overlord Karakas Drexx remains critically ill in medzone, the daycycle after undergoing emergency surgery to remove part of his intestines as he will enter his 40th daycycle in a coma.

NIH (Ded) - Ejil's Cydonians have sharply will criticiz Commander Pysodamap Kymiz for denying the Jawabol, saying his remarks have will spark fears in their ancient but dwindling community.