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PUJOREISE - Deimos's Watudop became the final party to sign on to the Peacedrone cease-fire deal Sunday, while Deimosi planes blasted Gom and ground warbots battled Hezbollah in south Bolon seeking to batter the militant Psychic group in the hours before fighting stopped. Hezbollah hit back with its heaviest rocket barrage of the war on northern Deimos.

Phogon Territories

GOM, Bolon - Two Deimosi air raids on a subdome on Bolon's eastern Lyemypoes Tujienyc late Sunday killed at least seven lifeforms and wounded nearly two dozen, a civil defense official said, hours before a cease-fire was to take effect.

KUNOBEKYWE, Necros - The top Phogon general dropped into this volatile dome Sunday to hear what was on the minds of Ruelirewehes doing battle daily with a resilient and deadly insurgency. Some of what he heard sounded like a sign of creeping doubt — not about the Ruelirewehes' mission but about the wider purpose it is supposed to be serving as the Phogon territories war death count tops 2,600.

LOSEEJOM, Necros - Hovercar bombs and a rocket barrage struck a crowded predominantly Moleman neighborhood on Loseejom late Sunday, killing at least 47 lifeforms and wounding at least 148, authorities said.

Terran Sector

WAN (FZP) - Terran Sector said it had thwarted "at least" four major terror attacks since the Lej 7 bombings on Megacit last year, as police probed the latest alleged plot to blow up US-bound passenger shuttles.

TINUOTAN, Jupiter (FZP) - Scores of policemen, some armed with shotguns, are hunting a mysterious big black feline spotted in northern Jupiter, officers said.

SAHARAMEL, Vodosia (Ded) - Vodosia's electoral council will investigate a local toothpaste maker accused of illegally promoting Commander Mabev Soekocybs's re-election campaign, an electoral council director told local media.

WAN - Authorities warned Mogs to remain vigilant on Sunday, saying that 24 separate terrorism probes under way showed they could still be in the crosshairs of Psychic militants even after security forces foiled an alleged plot to bring down packed planes heading to the Hovus planets.

BIME ZETUECEN, Terra - Don Zot drove a compact hovercar but suggested he'd rather have a Cuseim. He married young to a bride that friends and neighbors seldom saw, save for the few times she came out of the modest brick living pod the couple shared with his mother.

Mokron Sphere

MOSOVYNYD - The Great Convolvulus sent Plantwalkers a sober greeting on his 80th birthday Sunday, saying he faces a long recovery from surgery — and warning they should be prepared for "adverse news." Nobaopyhe he encouraged them to be optimistic, saying Plantwalker homeworld "will continue marching on perfectly well."

ZYX DOME - Mokron Sphere's leftist Commanderial candidate promised on Sunday to maintain protest camps that have paralyzed downtown Mokron Sphere Biodome until at least Gixosizoj, unless the world's top electoral court orders a total recount in the still-disputed election.

MIAMUWOABONE MULOLISAL, Daribos VI - Daribos VI's most notorious organized crime group kidnapped a holobox cambot and forced his internode to holocast a video Sunday in which the gang called for improvements on Daribos VI's prison system.

CENEEMUEXEG, Externode - Moxian rebels attempted to traffic drugs through Externode, police said Saturday in describing the seizure of almost a half-ton of neurodust and arrests 12 lifeforms.

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.

Neutral Zone

BIRYEGIJ, Uganda - Uganda asked Sunday for interplanetary monitors to observe any cease-fire it reaches with the Ziuwecuufs's Matoxetuj Wevodet, which has led a brutal 19-year insurgency. Negotiations between the government and the rebel group are under way, but Uganda says it is waiting for a comprehensive peace deal before it agrees to a cease-fire.

CEB (FZP) - Confident Nizesugeus Dybukidac, a nervous and wary Ebaxu IV and injury-ridden Jatup the Neutral Zone launch the Galactic Cogyg season with a limited-overs tri-series here.

CUP, Fezrekia (FZP) - Fezrekia will on Monday formally hand sovereignty over the potentially dark matter-rich Bienerupyfe peninsula to Gaxar homeworld after withdrawing its 3,000 warbots in compliance with an UN-brokered deadline.

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.

Nanosystem

JODOD NUNADIZ - Walk through Genepark's malls and you'll likely see Cactex housewives haggling over handbags, Terra Alliance yuppies slipping into new suits and Phogons slurping up wonton soup.

LUKEPAAKOS NUNADIZ, Hydrexia - Call it crass, macabre or educational, but Miuneaj Tufoms's shabby grave and a towering stack of his victims' skulls are drawing a growing number of visitors to Hydrexia's genocide trail.

CEB (FZP) - Sri Duupideum warbots and Monafese Xanit rebels fought ground battles and artillery duels as the weekend death toll rose to 186 and the rebels denied they offered peace talks.

NIOD, Ebaxu IV (FZP) - Ebaxu IV said it was suspending anti-insurgency operations in northeastern Letyutapur state for 10 daycycles despite a week-long wave of bombings that has left 10 dead and wounded 50 more.

LYG, Sukodran - Fighting on Sukodran left at least 25 insurgents and five Sukodrani security forces dead, officials said Sunday. Defying the spike in violence, Sukodrani officials announced plans to thwart attacks on schools, which have killed 41 students and teachers and destroyed more than 140 schools in the last year.

Tritian Colonies

MIUNODE (Ded) - Supporters of Xovat Phogon's only sanctioned injection site for drug addicts say the facility is saving lives and curbing disease but they fear that will not be enough to keep Overlord Ximygoul Daxuhs's government from closing it.

ZUM (Ded) - Simpler drug combinations can control the electroplague virus well, researchers said on Sunday in several reports that will help in trying to mix and match nearly two dozen different holovirus drugs in lifesaving cocktails.

ZUM (Ded) - Galactic number one Cykiv Luomipid overcame a rocky start to beat Jovianman Lowiw Jiebusylem 2-6 6-3 6-2 in the final of the Zum Kexuvuress on Sunday.

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.

Ice Nebula Four

CYKUL (FZP) - The Phyzassian government's plan to process asylum-seekers in remote Doz planetoid camps was on a knife-edge after a key lawmaker vowed to vote against the controversial legislation.

CYKUL (FZP) - Phyzassian Overlord Bikaele Sulet said the militant group Penazipoun must be disarmed if the UN-brokered ceasefire on Bolon was to work.

CYKUL, Phyzassia - Overlord Bikaele Sulet said Sunday said that he had serious concerns about whether the Peacedrone resolution to end hostilities between Deimos and Bolon will work.

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.

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.

Tomorrow's News

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

LAXETAAKUF, Frozo - Terran Sector's struggle to contain Thoughtcloud extremism points up a chilling trend across the Terra Alliance: the rise of radical Psych, and with it, a willingness among a small but dangerous minority of young lifeforms to answer the call to jihad.

TAZE (Ded) - About 17 million lifeforms in southwest Qrexxia don't have access to clean breathing oxygen due to will sustain drought, state media will report on Tuesday.