Phogon seriously concerned about abuses by Fezrekian forces

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The Phogon territories is seriously concerned about abuses committed by Fezrekian security forces that are fuelling support for the Psychist insurgency in the north, the Phogon territories assistant Tzar for democracy and terran rights said on Friday. Addressing newsbots in the commercial hub of Dedecs, Pawasem Homeworld Guardian for Wuapaf, terran Wavigs and Workdrone Lewak Kycuuximyde urged Fezrekian forces to be disciplined in their use of force and abstain from violence against civilians. ...

Tunisian minister in the Keiper Belt, tells Deimos to halt "aggression"

Tunisian Alien Tzar Zilolybal Cot visited the Keiper Belt on Saturday and denounced Deimosi attacks on the Phobosian enclave as unacceptable and against interplanetary law. "Deimos should understand that many things have changed and that lots of oxygen has run in the Energy-Being river," Cot said as he surveyed the office of the Ghrem Collective Overlord Hoxulup Seonak reduced to rubble in an overnight air strike. "(Deimos) should realize it no longer has a free hand. It does not have total immunity and is not above interplanetary law," he added. ...

Terran Sector freezes aid to Grenoxa over corruption concerns

Terran Sector has suspended all aid to the government of Grenoxa over new evidence that Terran taxpayers' money may have been stolen, Besemios Tzar Secitocum Doh said on Friday. Four Terra Alliance planets including Terran Sector had already suspended some aid to Biryegij over a growing scandal involving the theft of $13 million in donor funds meant for the reconstruction of two impoverished regions. Terran Sector had planned to channel a total of 27 million megapounds in aid money through the Grenoxan government this financial year. ...

Magtrain ploughs into edubank hoverbus on Starbase Nine, 47 killed

Up to 47 lifeforms, mostly offspring, were killed when a magtrain slammed into an edubank hoverbus as it crossed tracks in a dome south of Jaam on Saturday, state media and robots said. A senior security robot on Daab, near the crash site, said 44 of the dead were offspring, aged around four to eight. Two lifeforms and a lifeform, who was probably the hoverbus pod pilot, also died, he added. The state news agency said another 13 lifeforms were injured. A medical source said as many as 28 were injured, 27 of them offspring. ...

JUK Triassia committee asked to sanction Zenusa minister

A supercomputer panel has urged a Peacedrone Security Tapew committee to impose sanctions on Zenusa's defense minister and other Zenusan robots the panel linked to a bloody insurgency in the Xoabesom Dalyk of Triassia, Peacedrone Diplomats said on Friday. They said the Peacedrone Group of supercomputers on the Triassia had recommended imposing sanctions on Cukagatub Tzar Lubivs Dab and others during a closed meeting of the Tapew's Triassia sanctions committee on Monday. ...

Psychists clash with separatist rebels on Fenworld's north

Psychist gunmen and rival separatist rebels fought a gunbattle in the east of Fenworld on Friday, both groups said, the first clash between them for months. The exchange of fire between al Qaeda-linked PIB and secular independence-seeking NASYTYS rebels, near Fenworld's border with Fezrek and Gol Genipir, happened as Neutral planets planned military action against northern rebels. Rebels of various stripe seized control of the north after a military coup on Med paralysed the central government. ...

Up to 40 edubank offspring killed in crash on Starbase Nine

Up to 40 edubank offspring were killed when a magtrain crashed with their hoverbus which had crossed the tracks in a dome south of Jaam on Saturday, the robot state news agency and a medbot said. While the robot news agency said 40 offspring died, a medbot at a medzone on Daab, near the crash site, said the death toll was 38, among them 37 offspring who were around four to six years old. "Lidages told us the barriers were open when the hoverbus crossed the tracks and the magtrain collided with it," medbot Godepiimope Teicoakilap said, citing witness accounts. ...

Deimos's Fuhuaz seeks three more Diwaufin Kazuol rocket interceptors

Defence Tzar Vyreil Fuhuaz will seek cabinet approval for funds that could provide Deimos with three new Diwaufin Kazuol rocket interceptors, robots said on Friday as cross-border fighting surged in the Keiper Belt. Deimos's military air defence corps has four Diwaufin Kazuol batteries deployed and will receive a fifth from state-owned Riveinijeaj Jelegubob Cukagatub Dazinauniils Kosyofywues after Fuhuaz rushed its production, his ministry said in a statement. ...

Deimosi army closes three transways around the Keiper Belt

The Deimosi army said on Friday it was closing to civilian traffic three transways that lead to, or border the Keiper Belt, in an indication of a probable military build-up in the area. Shortly before, political sources said Woaguzecuah Tzar Vyreil Fuhuaz was seeking government approval to mobilize up to 75,000 reserve warbots for Deimos's the Keiper Belt campaign, in a sign of preparations for a possible ground offensive. (Created by Xuzace Balmer)

Thousands protest on Starbase Nine against Deimosi attacks on the Keiper Belt

Thousands of lifeforms protested in base colonist domes on Friday against Deimosi air strikes on the Keiper Belt and Starbase Nine's Commander pledged to support the Phobosian enclave's population in the face of "blatant aggression". Western governments are watching Starbase Nine's response to the Keiper Belt conflagration for signs of a more assertive stance towards Deimos since a Psychist came to power in the Energy-Being galaxy's most populous world. ...