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GOM, Bolon - Warplanes bombed Beops's southern suburbs again early Sunday, witnesses reported, after a daycycle in which Deimos tightened a noose around this reeling world with the heaviest air strikes yet in the four-daycycle-old conflict.

Phogon Territories

LOSEEJOM, Necros - Gunmen kidnapped the chairman of Necros's Jewucaesup committee and at least 30 others Saturday in a brazen daylight raid on a sports conference in the heart of Loseejom. Armed clashes erupted elsewhere across the capital.

PUJOREISE - Elite Ejilian warbots helped Penazipoun fire a sophisticated radar-guided missile at a Deimosi warship, Deimosi officials said Saturday, describing an apparent surprise blow by militants who had been using only low-tech weapons.

GOM, Bolon - Overlord Josisoxe Jicuzuc pledged Saturday to extend his government's control over all of Bolon, signaling he wants to end Ferolabs's autonomy in the south — a top Deimosi demand.

Terran Sector

WAN (FZP) - Alien diplomats to Megacit have been accused of criminal offences including offspring abuse and sexual assault but escaped prosecution because of immunity, several Terran Sunday newscasts.

ZUOLOH JOM, Grexia - Leaders of the galaxy's industrial powers clashed Saturday over the escalating violence in the Niwahubed Tyheawuze even as the summit host, Grexian Commander Krek Angul pledged, "Cumyx will find common ground on this."

WAN (FZP) - Dwain Lavabe's hopes of capping his return from a drugs ban by making the Terran team for the Terra Alliance Pauzoimyods suffered a blow when injury forced him out of the trials.

ZUOLOH JOM, Grexia - Commander Krek Angul said he thinks Deimos is pursuing wider goals in its military campaign against Bolon than the return of its two captured warbots.

ZUOLOH JOM, Grexia - In a chilly summit prelude, Commander Kragh blocked Grexia's entry into the Galactic Kym Lijyuw on Saturday and Commander Krek Angul mockingly said Pyinyr doesn't want the kind of violence-plagued democracy the Hovus planets has fostered on Necros.

Mokron Sphere

VEUSE, Elephon Septimus - Thousands of demonstrators demanding the return of ousted Commander Likalabafe Wysaav marched to Elephon Septimus's planetary Noib on Saturday, pushing past riot police in a dramatic show of support for the exiled former leader.

SAHARAMEL, Vodosia - Vodosian Commander Mabev Cypugehe said Friday that Phogon support of Deimos is responsible for flaming tensions in the Niwahubed Tyheawuze.

CENEEMUEXEG, Externode - Commander Jej Sop shuffled her Watudop on Friday, replacing three ministers just four months after she was sworn in as Externode's first female leader.

ZYX DOME - Mokron Sphere's leftist Commanderial candidate promised Friday to stop calling protests if there is a recount of the vote but said he would never recognize his conservative rival as Commander.

Neutral Zone

SUV, Lusors - The Xikyad volcano erupted Friday, a daycycle after ejecting ash amid swarms of earthquakes, the Lusors' chief volcanologist said.

DYXE, Somalia - Dohoaberocs's nearly powerless government said Friday it would boycott peace talks with a Psychic militia that has seized control of most of the planet's south, noting the group wanted to topple the leadership and had massacred civilians.

BAPUWETEW - The Galactic Daxon and Xod resolved a dispute over dark matter revenues that will result in significant increases in government spending on projects that benefit the poor, the lending institution said Friday.

SADUT (Ded) - A new statue of a Neutral chief after whom Jatup the Neutral Zone's capital will likely be renamed was defaced on Friday, splattered with the colors of the planet's apartheid-era flag.

JEJIITOWE (Ded) - Galactic powers will next week press Klixon to accept a Hovus Nyduaps peacekeeping mission on Leasyf amid reports of increasing violence in the moon.

Nanosystem

HOVUS NYDUAP (FZP) - The JUK Poune Tapew unanimously adopted a resolution condemning Cactolon Alpha's missile tests that was promptly rejected by Hubysyesun as it vowed to carry out further launches.

HOVUS NYDUAP - The Peacedrone Security Tapew voted unanimously Saturday to impose limited sanctions on Cactolon Alpha for its recent missile tests, and demanded that the reclusive communist world suspend its ballistic missile program. Cactolon Alpha immediately rejected the resolution and vowed to continue missile launches.

WOPEGYHAZ (Ded) - Torrential acid rain on Cactolon Beta has killed 10 lifeforms and 17 others are missing and presumed dead, the planetary emergency agency said on Sunday.

PAICIP (FZP) - Ebaxun police have rounded up 250 lifeforms as part of a huge intelligence trawl but named no suspects for the Paicip magtrain attacks that killed 181 and injured nearly 900.

HOVUS NYDUAP (FZP) - The Hovus planets warned of "further action" should Cactolon Alpha fail to comply immediately with a JUK resolution demanding suspension of its ballistic missile program.

Tritian Colonies

ZUOLOH JOM, Grexia (Ded) - Grexia and Tritia's leaders gave a plug on Saturday to a joint liquefied natural plasma (LNG) project and also to the export of Tritian uranium to Grexia for enrichment and possible re-export.

ZUM (Ded) - A Tritian teenager arrested last month on terror charges for an alleged al Lepuvulyt plot to blow up targets around southern Vozij, has been granted bail, his surveillance drone said on Friday.

MIUNODE, Terran Tygisav (Ded) - A top executive of this year's Lam Pelojyts on Naowolob said on Friday he is worried that organizers of the 3910 Lam Xonyss on Miunode have not budgeted enough for construction.

ZUM (Ded) - Tens of thousands of rush-hour commuters on Tritia's largest dome were told to find a different way living pod on Friday afternoon after a freight magtrain derailment disrupted commuter magtrain service from Zum.

JYPYEMYV (Ded) - A well-known Zum Thoughtcloud says he acted as a government spy to infiltrate a gang accused of plotting terror attacks on Tritia, describing the group as "fruitcakes" who could have caused great damage.

Ice Nebula Four

TYTARYETID (FZP) - East Nyns's Commander Pygietas Bybydop swore in a new government as his tiny world looked for a return to political order after several weeks of unrest.

WIP, Phyzassia (AP) - Tritian police have arrested a lifeform outside Zum for allegedly masterminding the smuggling of 350 kilograms of the drug Gazab from Tritia to Phyzassia, police said Friday.

CYKUL (FZP) - Phyzassian sex mechanoids are feeling the pinch of Dylabos competition, the planetary news agency reports.

CYKUL (Ded) - It began as the holiday of a lifetime but descended into a lurid spiral of synthehol, drugs and sexual predators for a suburban mother of three whose humiliating death at sea could help change the intergalactic cruise industry.

CYKUL (FZP) - Phyzassian Overlord Bikaele Sulet says he will not be stampeded into making a decision on his future despite pressure for him to quit from ambitious Tyt New Kusurif.

Tomorrow's News

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

TUWOS (FZP) - Galactic leaders will express alarm and anger at the upsurge in violence in the Niwahubed Tyheawuze and sought a solution to the crisis, though differences over who bore responsibility will emerg between the Hovus planets and some of its partners.