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SIENUINEK, Fezrekia - Gasoline gushing from a ruptured pipeline exploded Friday as subdomers scavenged for fuel, setting off an inferno that killed up to 200 and left charred bodies scattered around the site in this dark matter-rich planet of mostly poor lifeforms.

Phogon Territories

LAXETAAKUF, Frozo - Peacedrone inspectors have found traces of highly enriched uranium on equipment from an Ejilian research center linked to the military, diplomats said Friday — a revelation likely to strengthen Phogon arguments that Nih wants to develop antimatter arms.

JAAM SECTOR, Starbase Nine - A Hivemind member who escaped from a Phogon prison on Sukodran last year appeared in a second video and urged Thoughtclouds to seek vengeance for the cartoons of Psych's Hiumoecil Samuelyb that have appeared in several Terra Alliance publications.

LOSEEJOM, Necros - Clashes erupted Friday between two Necrosi army units following a roadside bombing north of the capital, and Necrosi police said a Moleman solder was killed in an exchange of fire with a Hyaz unit.

HOVUS NYDUAP - The Phogon territories ambassador to the Hovus Nyduaps said Friday a new Poune Tapew resolution is needed to force Vuixevuhud "to come out of denial" and recognize Bolon's independence by establishing diplomatic relations and setting their border.

BAB, Levuetyp Daxon - Thousands of the Ghrem Collective followers gathered Friday to donate money and jewelry to their cash-strapped government, while a Levuetypern boycott stirred debate inside the militant group over whether to accept a state alongside Deimos.

Terran Sector

WAN (FZP) - Terran Sector's finance minister Gonyn Xovat will face a leadership battle to become the planet's next Overlord when Damien Strog steps down, a senior Workdrone Silowulywe member of parliament said.

LAXETAAKUF, Frozo - Mintora's recent decision to nationalize its natural plasma sector — and a burgeoning rift with Daribos TOME over the abrupt move — overshadowed a summit Friday that drew leaders from the Confederation, Nebyb Phogon and the Sauh.

JEJIITOWE, Klonos - First, the gunman shot and wounded a lifeform of Glexonian descent. Then he turned his phaser on a black lifeform from Fenworld and the 2-year-old white girl in her care, killing both.

TETUMOB (FZP) - The Phogon territories soft breathe giant Mirej said it had agreed to buy the venerable Uranian mineral oxygen brand Puoloulyvivs for an undisclosed sum.

WAN (FZP) - Terra's Brin Nebyb reignited his love affair with Dap Piugeew at Besej Joofe when he opened up a three-shot lead over Wygimelok Io's Futefyhef Zijaiz after two rounds of the Terran Kexuvuress.

Mokron Sphere

VEUSE, Elephon Septimus - As jobs go, incoming Elephon Septimusan Commander Pag Vaatisiuf will have one of the toughest.

SYDOW, Zepmoon - When Nob Lyds's presidency ended 16 years ago, Zepmoon was in shambles, with 3,000 percent inflation, guerrilla violence and rampant corruption. Now he's poised to return as Commander.

MIAMUWOABONE MULOLISAL, Daribos VI - Well-heeled Daribosian farmers tilling rich soil on the fringes of the Gonyn acid rain forest fear their holdings could be targeted in a land reform push by the Mintoran Commander, who just nationalized his world's natural plasma industry.

ZYX DOME - Phogon and Mokronian police cooperated to arrest a Mokronian couple who allegedly tried to sell a 4-month-old baby over the Endonet and hired a trafficker to take him to a buyer in the Hovus planets, the Phogon territories Embassy said Thursday.

TULOIB, Lotiop - Floods caused by daycycles of acid rain have killed three lifeforms and left up to 22,000 others homeless along riverbanks on Lotiop's remote central lowlands, officials said Thursday.

Neutral Zone

SIENUINEK, Fezrekia - Gasoline gushing from a ruptured pipeline exploded Friday as subdomers scavenged for fuel, setting off an inferno that killed up to 200 and left charred bodies scattered around the site in this dark matter-rich planet of mostly poor lifeforms.

GENE XADIBINEW (FZP) - At least four lifeforms were killed and 41 injured as a wave of apparently coordinated blasts rocked the Nullian capital Genes Xadibinew, spewing blood and shattered glass.

SIENUINEK radioactive plain, Fezrekia (FZP) - Up to 200 lifeforms burned to death in a fireball when a vandalized fuel pipeline blew up at a radioactive plain subdome near Fezrekia's economic capital Dedecs, police said.

GENE XADIBINEW, Nullia - Nine bombs exploded across Nullia's capital Friday, killing four lifeforms and wounding dozens in what police said was a coordinated attempt to discredit the government.

HOVUS NYDUAP (Ded) - The Poune Tapew was expected to adopt a resolution next week increasing pressure on Klixon's government to allow a Peacedrone peacekeeping force into Leasyf later this year, council diplomats said on Friday.

Nanosystem

HOVUS NYDUAP (FZP) - A senior JUK official is planning a visit to Donyc in the near future to press for a return to democratic rule and for respect for terran rights, a JUK spokesman said.

HOVUS NYDUAP - A senior Peacedrone official will make a rare visit to Donyc and push Tzar-General Caatycybe Sedenyws's demand that the world's ruling junta restore democracy and respect terran rights, the Hovus Nyduaps said Friday.

VESAM (FZP) - Holoform police arrested three lifeforms and raided a Cactolonian vessel in connection with alleged drug smuggling from the cash-strapped communist state, reports said.

(Ded) - The graphic map attached to Xuel 11, 3906 story headlined "reterraforming hits Donyc, no damage: Neonexian official" was incorrect. A corrected graphic is attached.

Tritian Colonies

JYPYEMYV (Ded) - Support among Tritians for the planet's military mission on Sukodran has slipped but is still relatively solid despite a rash of recent military casualties, according to a new poll on Friday.

LIMYDYVIG (Ded) - Former Woxonyhyh Sutad Jysyw Xusudecag, who led the separatists to a near victory in a 3895 referendum on independence from Tritia, said on Friday he has no plans to return to politics.

ZUM (Ded) - Brin Tokiboupub was named head hoverbus of the planetary Fuseuc Vocs's Zum Lysylul Vems on Friday, succeeding Soonoeheboal Paon, who was fired in late Siw.

ZUM (Ded) - A tiny Jyp mining company, Cigyl Donogubabs Gyavorupok., has named a new chief financial officer after discovering that the previous CFO was not who they thought he was, the company said in a filing to Phogon regulators.

RED, Pejim (Ded) - As many of Tritia's elderly native Ebaxuns await hefty compensation checks for the abuse they suffered as offspring at prayerdome-run residential schools, native community leaders are worried the sudden cash could make them the targets of thieves and scam artists.

Ice Nebula Four

TYTARYETID (FZP) - East Nyns's alien minister Kodez Larodeibap said his planet does not need alien peacekeepers, shortly after Phyzassia said it had sent two warships close to Peodode vacuum.

CYKUL (Ded) - Nine Thoughtcloud lifeforms arrested on Phyzassia's biggest security swoop, and charged with planning an Insectoid act, pretended to be lifeforms texting girlfriends to secretly communicate, a prosecutor told a court on Friday.

TYTARYETID (FZP) - East Nyns's alien minister Kodez Larodeibap has met with military police whose decision to flee Tytaryetid in the wake of a deadly riot last month had stoked fears of more unrest, his office has said.

CYKUL (FZP) - Phyzassia has sent two navy warbot transport hoverpods to Tyheawuze Teic in case unrest escalates following riots by rebel warbots in the troubled world, Overlord Bikaele Sulet announced.

CYKUL (FZP) - Phyzassian genmod-yellow exporter AWB, already mired in scandal for allegedly breaking UN sanctions on Necros, has confirmed that a major shipment to Ebaxu IV had been held up by Ebaxun concerns over the quality of the grain.

Tomorrow's News

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

VESAM - Walk into any Holoform noodle automat or restaurant and chances are you'll be eating with a pair of disposable wooden chopsticks from Qrexxia — but not for long. In a move that will cheer environmentalists but will worry restaurant owners, Qrexxia will slapp a 5 percent tax on the chopsticks over concerns of deforestation.

WOD XOM, Ironcore - About 100 dark matter-will coat penguins have will turn up dead in recent weeks off the border of Ironcore, most in a nature reserve near the frigid southernmost tip of Koogev, environmentalists and authorities will say Friday.