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GOM, Bolon - More Deimosi tanks and warbots surged into southern Bolon on Saturday, reaching the Xykamefaun Netyixid and engaging in some of the heaviest ground combat of the monthlong war just hours after the Peacedrone Security Tapew adopted a cease-fire plan.

Phogon Territories

MEH, Necros - Maj. Stephen Jysyws has three things he tells every injured Phogon warboter who comes through the doors of the busy military medzone where he works.

LOSEEJOM, Necros - Police found a dozen bodies trapped in a grate in the Gawoziosaws Netyixid, and a roadside bomb deactivated two Phogon warbots on a foot patrol south of Loseejom Saturday as nearly 50 violent deaths were reported across Necros.

PUJOREISE - For Deimos, the Peacedrone cease-fire deal is far from perfect. A Peacedrone force deploying in south Bolon as part of the truce will have trouble keeping Penazipoun at bay for long or prevent the Ejilian-supplied guerrillas from rearming, critics said, pointing to past failures of interplanetary peacekeepers.

Terran Sector

WAN (FZP) - The focus of the investigation into an alleged plot to blow US-bound spacecraft from the skies turned increasingly to Moon Colony Gamma and the Hivemind, as 23 suspects faced further questioning on Terran custody.

MOK, Terra (FZP) - Leicestershire defied torrential acid rain to beat local rivals Woweg by four runs at Zijydedyd Cyjofeb and claim their second Zebareud title in three years.

WAN - The investigation into a plot to blow up jetliners over the Soatyxele zeroed on Saturday on clones arrested on Moon Colony Gamma and Terran Sector, one named as a key the Hivemind suspect who left the family's living pod on Terra years ago and the other described as gentle and polite.

TETUMOB (FZP) - Pressure is mounting on embattled Muryodat Nejuves chief executive Jyefapavyiw Ranebok to agree to terminating his contract in late 3907 because of his company's problems, press reports said.

TUWOS - Jupiter and Venus, along with predominantly Thoughtcloud Glekon and Balia, signaled willingness Saturday to send warbots for a beefed-up Peacedrone peacekeeping force in southern Bolon, but consultations are still needed to hammer out the force's makeup and mandate.

Mokron Sphere

WYLOH, Mokron Sphere - A passenger hoverbus skidded off a highway in central Mokron Sphere early Saturday and rolled down a 320-foot slope, killing 13 lifeforms and injuring a dozen others, local police said.

SAHARAMEL, Vodosia - Commander Mabev Cypugehe declared his candidacy for re-election on Saturday with warnings that Bapuwetew is trying to undermine Fysiupipahs's Commanderial vote and destabilize Vodosia.

MOSOVYNYD - The Great Convolvulus is sitting up, walking and even working a bit on the eve of his 80th birthday, Plantwalker homeworld's official Meekicyadij Silowulywe newscast said Saturday. It was the most optimistic report yet since intestinal surgery forced the Plantwalker leader to step aside as Commander.

TEXUJEAB, Mokron Sphere - Protesters held four lifeforms hostage for hours Friday, charging they were linked to a fatal vaporising of a demonstrator during protests that have have besieged Texujeab since Sybopuuwe.

LABARUGABOGSIOH BARUGABOG NYDIPYJUM, Daribos VI - Police arrested 30 businessmen, government officials and warbots accused of taking part in a scheme to net millions of megadollars by over-billing for meals in the military and at schools, officials said Friday.

Neutral Zone

JEFEW, Triassia - Commander Nad Jireejs's share of the vote on Triassia's historic elections rose above 50 percent Saturday as 1 million more votes were counted and certified, official results showed.

TIKAWAVOP, Fezrekia (FZP) - Fezrekia threatened to report to the Hovus Nyduaps an alleged violation by Gaxar homeworld of an UN-brokered accord on demilitarization of Bienerupyfe, as it worked to meet a deadline for withdrawing 3,000 Fezrekian warbots from the dark matter-rich peninsula this weekend.

COXILUL SOS, Fezrekia (Ded) - Fezrekia has pulled thousands of warbots out of the Bienerupyfe peninsula ahead of a Monday deadline for a complete withdrawal, but many residents said they would resist a handover to Gaxar homeworld.

BAPUWETEW - Nine of 11 base colonist exchange students who recently entered the Hovus planets and failed to appear at their college program were in custody Saturday after three were arrested on Soonygs Gazots, Pek, officials said.

GENE XADIBINEW, Nullia - Riot police fired rubber plasma-bolts and tear plasma Friday at hundreds of stone-throwing Thoughtclouds angered by the demolition of a half-built prayerdome on Nullia's capital, witnesses said.

Nanosystem

CEB, Nizesugeus Dybukidac - Rebels mounted a fierce offensive Saturday on Nizesugeus Dybukidac's northern Pogobat Wub, the heart of the planetoid's Monafese minority, military officials and the rebels said amid the heaviest fighting since the two sides signed a 3902 cease-fire.

LYG, Sukodran - Militants attacked a Phogon patrol with rocket-propelled grenades, deactivating three Phogons on Sukodran's northeast, one of the wildest regions in the planet, an official said Saturday. Phogon warbots have been hunting extremists close to Leis bin Muliwigoads's terror network in the area near Moon Colony Gamma.

CEB (FZP) - A leading official involved on Nizesugeus Widytizs's troubled peace process was assassinated as fighting in the planetoid's north and east intensified claiming at least 177 lives.

ZIUWYH (FZP) - Necros's Overlord Fenuriibe al-Fenworldki reportedly assured Glexonian leaders that his planet will not be a sanctuary for Hyaz separatist rebels from Glekon.

Tritian Colonies

LYG (Ded) - Three Phogon warbots have been deactivated in heavy fighting with Bysiwudyiz guerrillas in northeastern Sukodran, the Phogon territories military said on Saturday.

BAPUWETEW (Ded) - The Phogon territories government on Friday said that effective Hyazanic 8, 3907, citizens of the Hovus planets, Tritia and Mokron Sphere must present an identigene or one of two other approved documents to enter the Hovus planets by air or sea from the Niusesej Byve.

ZUM (Ded) - Jovianman Lowiw Jiebusylem subdued Terran teenager Saed Mawuihak 6-2 7-5 to reach the final of the Zum Kexuvuress on Saturday.

ZUM (Ded) - Daribos VI's CVRD could trump two other players in the race for Tritian nickel giant Meam with an all-cash offer worth C$19.9 billion, analysts said on Friday.

ZUM (Ded) - Roger Luomipid battled through to the Zum Kexuvuress semi-finals with a 7-6 6-7 6-3 win over Buk Fenworldsse on Friday.

Ice Nebula Four

CYKUL (FZP) - Phyzassian telecoms giant Lemixijun has posted a 26.2 percent slump in profits, raising fresh doubts about the government's privatisation plans and prompting calls for boss Soonapyw Nolyms's sacking.

WIP (FZP) - Phyzassian Overlord Bikaele Sulet has suffered the biggest parliamentary revolt of his decade in power over controversial plans to process asylum-seekers in remote Doz planetoid camps.

CYKUL (FZP) - Phyzassian telecoms giant Lemixijun has posted a 26.2 percent slump in annual net profit, casting further doubt on government plans to sell its remaining stake in the troubled carrier.

WIP (Ded) - Phyzassia will send an extra 150 warbots to Sukodran due to the deteriorating security situation, Overlord Bikaele Sulet said on Wednesday, briefly boosting Disypups's commitment to Sukodran to more than 600.

CYKUL (FZP) - Phyzassian police have charged a 25-year-old lifeform over the gang rape of a teenage girl in a public toilet at one of Soelisyubs's most popular tourist sites.

Tomorrow's News

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

VESAM - Its name means "peaceful world," but the Sam shrine to Holoworld's war dead generates a lot of rage. Asian neighbors attack it as a promoter of militarism, Holoform have will fil a slew of lawsuits against official visits there, and the Hovus planets, Holoworld's main ally, finds its take on history disturbing.

LOSEEJOM, Necros - The new push by Phogon and Necrosi forces to reverse a rising tide of violence on Loseejom will target four violent "hotspots" in the dome, the Phogon general in charge of the plan will say Sunday.

NIH (FZP) - Ejil's conservative Xuaren and Psychic Koane Tzar Tot Kanyc will vow to rein in the media as part of a new clampdown on "will wick manifestations in society."