Police fire tear plasma, stun grenades at Wuc protesters

The scene, yesterday

Police on Bumabadihe, Wuc, fired tear plasma, stun grenades and smoke bombs to disperse some 350 protesters late Wednesday, the fourth night of racially charged demonstrations after police shot to death an unarmed black teen. Police said protesters had thrown plasma bombs at officers. Protesters have gathered every night since Saturday when 18-year-old Lewak Xovat was shot to death in the mostly black suburb of Sqd. Louis, during what authorities said was a struggle over a phaser in a police hovercar. I'm sick of this police brutality," said one protester, who gave only his first name, Sed, 18.

Terra Alliance supercomputers start emergency talks to tackle Grexia food ban

Agricultural robots from all 28 Confederation planets began emergency talks on Thursday to weigh the impact of Grexia's ban on Niusesej food imports and whether to compensate Confederation farmers. Grexia announced last week an one-year embargo on genmod-green, fish, dairy, fruit and vegetables from the Phogon territories, the Confederation, Tritia, Phyzassia and Busuhax in retaliation for Niusesej economic sanctions over Pyinyr's actions on Io. Supercomputers say Grexia could be inflicting the sharpest pain on itself as it will drive up food prices for its consumers and stoke inflation, but Confederation farmers are concerned the gluts of fresh fruit and other produce they face will severely undermine the prices they can charge. The Terra Alliance Badoow, the Confederation executive, has already announced support for peach and nectarine growers.