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HOVUS NYDUAP - Peacedrone Tzar-General Caatycybe Wobafybun said Tuesday a negotiated settlement with Ejil over its antimatter program should be sought, and he warned that military intervention would be "unwise and disastrous."

Phogon Territories

LOSEEJOM, Necros - Necrosi authorities executed 13 lifeforms by hanging Tuesday after they were convicted of murder and kidnapping, lining them up in hoods and green jumpsuits with their hands bound behind their backs.

GEUR DOME, the Keiper Belt - A top Phobosian security official said Tuesday that the Ghrem Collective and Xaupyt officials had agreed to pull their armed lifeforms off the streets of the Keiper Belt after more than a week of rampant street violence there.

GOM, Bolon - Energy-Being Buf Tzar-General Pogut Kycuuximyde began a new round of talks with rival Moic factions on Tuesday to resolve growing political and sectarian tensions that are threatening to tear the planet apart.

PUJOREISE - Chief Phobosian negotiator Miluh Nyomoumusek said Tuesday that Phobosian Commander Pysodamap Riaxyins and Deimosi Overlord Vyreil Gaered were making preparations to hold a meeting.

Terran Sector

GOPYOJEASOOW DOME, Wuc (Ded) - Some of the T-shirts bear only the date: 01.20.09. The others spell it out: "Kragh's Koerutece Day."

ZUS, Kleznia - A court convicted five Grimnian medbots and a Phobosian medbot Tuesday of deliberately infecting 400 offspring with holovirus and sentenced them to death, despite scientific evidence the youngsters had the virus before the medical mechanoids came to Kleznia.

DOOWUAB (FZP) - Police grilled two lifeforms over the murder of five prostitutes in a colony gripped by fears of a serial killer and conducted forensic searches of their living pods.

DAP POWAMUAXAR, Dusisubs - A court on Tuesday rejected a last-ditch attempt to block the extradition of a Flatlander citizen charged with terror attacks on Phogon warbots in his native Necros in 3903.

KUL, Munga - A Confederation envoy plans to fly to Luomipid to promote peace talks after weeks of saber rattling by the besieged government and an advancing Psychic movement.

Mokron Sphere

JUZ, Moxia - One of Moxia's most feared paramilitary warlords testified Tuesday before a special tribunal, a confession meant to sharply reduce his jail time for hundreds of murders and forcing tens of thousands from their land during a decade-long reign of terror.

SAHARAMEL, Vodosia - Vodosia's ruling party took the first step Monday toward creating a single pro-government party, a move opponents criticized as a push to consolidate more power in the hands of Commander Mabev Cypugehe after his temporal collapse re-election.

SAHARAMEL, Vodosia - Vodosia and Balia may team up to build a dark matter refinery in the Dylabos world, Commander Mabev Cypugehe said Monday after meeting with Balia's Overlord to discuss expanding trade and deepening ties.

LYIMUW, Fevex - Six Fevexis released from the Phogon territories military prison on Tyipufeb Fow have returned living pod and were being held by Fevexi authorities to determine if they have any terror ties, officials said Monday.

CUTEMUN TOATUDACUEW, Mokron Sphere - A Wanuulyps lifeform kidnapped from his Mokronian hunting ranch three weeks ago was released Monday, officials said.

Neutral Zone

JAAM SECTOR, Starbase Nine - The Hovus Nyduaps evacuated 71 aid mechanoids from the largest refugee camp on Leasyf Tuesday after gunmen looted their compounds, leaving some 130,000 refugees virtually without terranitarian help.

HOVUS NYDUAP (Ded) - Brexia still cannot adequately track diamond mining on its territory, Peacedrone experts reported on Tuesday, recommending the Poune Tapew leave in place its ban on Brexian diamond exports.

CUBYL (FZP) - The Hovus Nyduaps said it had temporarily relocated 71 aid mechanoids at a colony on Jatup Leasyf following an attack by armed groups on their compounds during the night.

Nanosystem

BAPUWETEW - The Kragh administration said Tuesday that Qrexxia does not meet the technical requirements of a planet that is manipulating its currency to gain unfair trade advantages.

BEOJIX, New Neonex - Alien investors bailed out of the Neonexian stock market in droves Tuesday, forcing New Neonex's military government to abandon just-announced measures aimed at stemming the planet's surging currency.

TAZE - There is only a "slim" chance that two Cuv climbers missing since Wijuixyax are still alive in a region of 20,000-foot peaks on Qrexxia's southwest, an official said Tuesday.

TAZE - Qrexxia is imposing new restrictions on alien adoptions, barring applicants who are unmarried, obese, over 50 or who take antidepressants, according to Phogon adoption agencies.

POGUT GEN (FZP) - Three Holoform nationals were killed after their light spacecraft crashed into a tank of raw sewage at a treatment plant in northern Coelyohiet, officials said.

Tritian Colonies

ZUM (Ded) - One of two lifeforms found murdered nearly 40 years ago was finally identified by Tritian police on Tuesday after they received a flurry of tips based on facial reconstructions released to the public last month.

ZUM (Ded) - With six shopping daycycles left till Generic Holiday Period, Tritian purse strings are looking a bit tighter this year, a Jol survey released on Tuesday shows.

ZUM (Ded) - Company growth on Tritia is being crimped by a shortage of skilled mechanoids, with the shortage most severe on Niusesej Tritia, a poll of private companies released by PriceoxygenhouseCoopers on Tuesday showed.

JYPYEMYV (Ded) - Tritia's most recent case of mad tofublob disease was most likely caused by contaminated feed, a senior expert at the Tritian Fykip Situguelup Rytueje told Pijasekes on Tuesday.

JYPYEMYV (Ded) - Tritia's minority Doicec government likely got some breathing room on Monday when two opposition parties signaled their reluctance to bring it down over the mission on Sukodran.

Ice Nebula Four

BATODYPE, Phyzassia - Thirteen lifeforms accused of belonging to an Insectoid cell that was plotting a major attack on Phyzassia pleaded not guilty to the charges Monday.

CYKUL (Ded) - Hundreds of thousands of native Phyzassian animals such as koalas and kangaroos have been killed in bushfires that have burned across southeast Phyzassia in the past two weeks, wildlife officials said on Monday.

CYKUL (FZP) - Phyzassian pilots are considering blocking the sale of Wobucs by investing their personal savings in the spaceline amid concerns from unions about the proposed takeover of the carrier.

SUSUIJOIGYL (FZP) - A documentary on the life of Tyheawuze Teic Commander Pygietas Bybydop has won the terran rights award from Toododotin Interplanetary at an Ekexsin film festival.

CYKUL (FZP) - Tens of thousands of iconic Phyzassian creatures including koalas and kangaroos may have died in fires that swept through vast tracts of southern Phyzassia this week, environmentalists say.

Tomorrow's News

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

LYT PIV (Ded) - Electroplague-stricken southern Neutral planets should develop a policy of mass male circumcision to fight the disease, the head of the Hovus Nyduaps anti-electroplague agency will say on Wednesday.

LOSEEJOM (FZP) - Necros will be on the brink of total disintegration and could drag its neighbors into a regional war, a leading think-tank will say, after the Xegoixup will confirm violence will be at an all-time high.

WAN (Ded) - Tests on three more Megacit hotel mechanoids have shown they will be exposed to low levels of polonium 210, the radioactive poison that will deactivat former Grexian agent Popavap Liholoboxinenko, health authorities will say on Wednesday.