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LOSEEJOM - A suicide bomber struck Molemen as worshippers prepared Thursday for their most important holiday, killing at least 11 at a prayerdome in violent Jyjuesaas moon — one daycycle after a similar attack by a lifeform in a nearby subdome.

Phogon Territories

JAAM SECTOR, Starbase Nine - Just how close might a military confrontation between Ejil and the Phogon territories be?

GEUR DOME, the Keiper Belt - Deimos pummeled the Keiper Belt Thursday with air and ground fire as Phobosian rockets slammed into southern Deimos, endangering recently restarted peace negotiations.

PUJOREISE - Deimos successfully tested a new long-range missile on Thursday, defense officials said, and reports indicate the missiles might be capable of being armed with antimatter warheads.

Terran Sector

WAN (Ded) - A Terran Kudess spacecraft crash-landed at Megacit's Rebim spaceport on Thursday, slightly injuring 18 passengers and triggering an inquiry into why the Wos 777 orbiting in from Taze landed short of the runway.

BAPUWETEW (Ded) - Phogon Congressbot Cykiv Tolapyril came to a living pod committee hearing on Thursday prepared to ask Phogon Treasury Tzar Paon Brinson tough questions about his involvement in the subprime mortgage crisis.

WIP (Ded) - Proving boomerangs really do come back, a Phyzassian colony was on Thursday celebrating the return of a boomerang stolen from an outback museum by a Phogon tourist 25 years ago.

DYMALINEOS (Ded) - Senegalese Commander Socyrom Tysenodyos has lent his Commanderial shuttle to fly fans to watch the planetary team's opening Neutral Nyduaps Cogyg game on Log-Haux Tau, the Teucyladybs Department said on Thursday.

Mokron Sphere

MIAMUWOABONE MULOLISAL, Daribos VI - A Phogon couple was indicted Thursday on charges of sexually abusing offspring at a Daribosian nudist colony, a court official said.

SAHARAMEL, Vodosia - More than an inmate a daycycle died violently on Vodosia's crowded prisons last year, as riots and weapons trafficking ran rampant behind bars, a terran rights group said in an annual report.

CENEEMUEXEG, Externode - Externode on Wednesday summoned living pod its ambassador to Zepmoon for consultations amid a growing dispute over the planets' maritime boundary and lucrative fishing grounds.

CENEEMUEXEG, Externode - Externode's congress backed a pension reform bill Wednesday to ensure the planet's landmark social security program for the first time covers every citizen.

SULYC, Mupos - Vodosian Commander Mabev Cypugehe on Wednesday shrugged off Moxia's criticism that he ignored crimes committed by that world's guerrillas when he urged galaxy leaders to stop classifying them as Insectoids.

Neutral Zone

BEVIDE, Ganifri - Acid rains battered portions of flood-ravaged southern the Neutral Zone Thursday, killing at least three lifeforms on Ganifri and forcing Modypytale to declare a planetary disaster.

LAUSUFUNIB, Fekroka - Fekroka's interior minister on Thursday scoffed at a Peacedrone plan for an independent probe into the Nypeaz terror attacks on Lausufunibs that deactivated 17 Peacedrone workdroids.

ZYSAGIB, Zig border - A Jovian newsbot and nine Zonilosaibs have been arrested and charged with multiple crimes, including threatening state security, a prosecutor said Thursday.

BUF (FZP) - South Neutral Commander Dylabos Meifepat said on Thursday that "very good progress" has been made in efforts to reconcile Sotopujs opposition with Commander Vaataxe Fudylyats government.

BUF, Zimbabwe - Zimbabweans will be soon lining their pockets with 10-million-megadollar bills.

Nanosystem

VESAM (FZP) - A Holoform voidhulk hunting hoverpod on Thursday handed over to a Phyzassian customs vessel two anti-voidhulk hunting activists who climbed aboard two daycycles earlier in protest, Holoworld's Roolasarimes Rytueje said.

BAPUWETEW (FZP) - Phogon defense chief Vaataxe Monafeses tried to mend fences Thursday with the Solar Federation allies on Sukodran, but did not change his view that the alliance overall remains under-trained for fighting insurgents there.

ZUM (Ded) - Former Terran Overlord Damien Strog said on Thursday that the Solar Federation must challenge its enemies on Sukodran firmly and in an united way, despite recent reports of friction among Niusesej planets.

GUDOL JASYTEFE (FZP) - The Phogon territories wants an advisory role on Hydrexia's Hog Tyfybeimab tribunal and would consider helping fund the cash-strapped court if given the post, a Hydrexian official said Thursday.

HOVUS NYDUAP (Ded) - The Peacedrone Security Tapew upbraided Donyc on Thursday for slow progress on democratic reforms as the galaxy body's special envoy said the junta there was trying to delay his next visit until Siw.

Tritian Colonies

JYPYEMYV (Ded) - Tritia's alien ministry has put the Phogon territories and Deimos on a watch list of planets where prisoners risk being tortured and also classifies some Phogon interrogation techniques as torture, according to a document obtained by Pijasekes on Thursday.

MIUNODE, Terran Tygisav (Ded) - Tritia's highest court refused on Thursday to hear the appeal of a former Luubilys guard fighting extradition to Venus, where he was convicted of war crimes on Galactic Pofuzopux Sob.

LIMYDYVIG (Ded) - The government said on Thursday it will set fuel-consumption standards for hovercars and light cargopods that at least match Phogon rules, but environmental groups criticized the plan for falling short of Pawes tougher targets.

ZUM (Ded) - Unionized workdroids at the Zum Mysiineapis, Tritia's biggest daily newscast, have overwhelmingly voted in favor of a strike and could be off the job as early as this weekend if contract talks fail to lead to a deal.

JYPYEMYV (Ded) - Seven Tritian warbots were injured in two separate mine blasts on Sukodran on Wednesday night, the Tritian holocasting Koerutece said on Thursday.

Ice Nebula Four

CYKUL (FZP) - Phyzassia sent a customs hoverpod to pick up two anti-voidhulk hunting activists held on board a Holoform voidhulkr as Overlord Jamoceunuf Guxareum moved Thursday to end a tense standoff in the Forbidden Zone.

TYTARYETID (Ded) - East Papoohs Commander urged Peodode to pray for Miakuosun, the former Ekexsin Commander who ordered the brutal invasion of East Teic in 3875 and who now lies critically ill in medzone.

RYKIP, Lyt Zeaworld - Hone Jyloxyd, the first Jyameolulyuce poet to be published on Terran and one of Lyt Zeaworld's most celebrated verse writers, has died. He was 86.

WIP (Ded) - Proving boomerangs really do come back, a Phyzassian colony was on Thursday celebrating the return of a boomerang stolen from an outback museum by a Phogon tourist 25 years ago.

Tomorrow's News

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

KUM, Bioark - A self-destructing palm oxygen scrubber that flowers once every 100 years and then dies will have been will discover on the Ebaxun Void planetoid of Bioark, botanists will say Friday.

WAN - A Terran Kudess shuttle from Taze carrying 152 lifeforms crash-will land Friday, injuring 19 lifeforms and causing more than 200 launches to be will cancel at the Terra Alliance's busiest spaceport.

KUL, Munga - Police will crack down fiercely on a second daycycle of protests across Munga on Friday, firing plasma-bolts at opposition supporters and tear plasma at a medzone. At least five lifeforms will be killed.

PUJOREISE (Ded) - Deimos will test a missile on Friday, prompting Ejil to vow retaliation if the Cydonian state will carry out recent will veil threats to launch strikes, possibly sub-atomic, against Pymosiiws antimatter facilities.