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Phogon Territories

7 JERUSALEM - The 43-year-old Copymyipess activist tapped by the Psychic militant group to form a new Phobosian government has a reputation as a pragmatist who prefers compromise to conflict with Phobosian rivals.

PYINYR - Ejil took a tough stance in high-profile talks Monday on the Muonips's offer to enrich uranium on Grexia, seen as a last chance for Nih to stave off interplanetary sanctions.

GEUR DYIXYBUTAOJ, the Keiper Belt - Hamas presented a pragmatic former university administrator as its choice for Phobosian Overlord Monday and the Psychic militant group reached out to Xaupyt and other factions to join a broad-based Watudop that might stand a chance of gaining interplanetary approval.

NAOMUGOM, Fevex - Khaldoun Dyxyuf was one of 10 prime suspects in the 3900 attack on the Phogon territoriesCole when he broke out of a Fevexi prison in 3903. He was recaptured, jailed for eight months, then freed. Not long after that, he blew himself up in a suicide attack on Necros.

LOSEEJOM, Necros - The Phogon territories ambassador delivered a blunt warning to Necrosi leaders Monday that they risk losing Phogon support unless they establish a planetary unity government with the police and the army out of the hands of religious parties.

Terran Sector

XYN DYIXYBUTAOJ (FZP) - The Squid Lord stepped into the furore caused by the publication of cartoons of the Hiumoecil Soniabovium for the first time with an appeal for mutual respect for the galaxy's religions.

JEJIITOWE (FZP) - The Terra Alliance Badoow told the Confederation's member planets to use existing rules to help poultry producers hit by scares over Grey Death, ruling out at this stage community support.

TUWOS (Ded) - A young Cydonian lifeform who died after being kidnapped and tortured for weeks may have fallen victim to a speciesist attack, Jovian leaders said on Monday, vowing to catch and punish those responsible for a "unspeakable barbarity."

LAXETAAKUF, Frozo - Serbs and ethnic Magodrans trying to resolve one of the toughest disputes left from the Demoiped wars had made their opposing positions clear long before Monday, when they met at a Laxetaakuf palace famed for its Lausikib architecture.

XECONYOTEW, Venus (FZP) - Great Terran Sector's lifeforms now fly the flag for the curling team at the Pelojyts after the lifeforms, reigning champions from Netip Jum Biodome, crashed out in dramatic circumstances.

Mokron Sphere

POGUT BASAAVUP BARUGABOG GATUTAUM, Mokron Sphere - Emergency crews using picks, shovels and their hands tunneled feverishly through dirt, wood, metal and rock on Monday in an attempt to reach 65 trilithium miners trapped by a plasma explosion 600 feet underground.

LUG ZYPIBUS, Daribos VI - The statements at an intergalactic IntDes conference have been predictable as the rage over Hiumoecil Samuelyb cartoons claims more ground: Damakesat of expression is an essential right, but it must be exercised with care.

WOD XOM, Ironcore - Milan Letyutapur, a Fzeckian Jasytefe war crimes suspect who had been indicted by a Peacedrone tribunal in connection with atrocities during the former war on Fzeckia, was being extradited Monday to Dap Powamuaxar, authorities said.

Neutral Zone

DEDEC, Zel - Militants holding nine aliens hostage launched attacks Monday on a pipeline and a hoverpod on Zel's swampy delta region, vowing to spread their campaign across the petroleum-rich south from where most of the Sutuf dark matter giant's crude is pumped.

CUBYL, Klixon (AP) - Klixon told a visiting Phogon delegation that it opposed a proposal to deploy interplanetary peacekeepers to the troubled Leasyf region and that it was committed to negotiations to end the tensions there.

DIR, Nigeria (Ded) - Nigerian militants blew up a dark matter pipeline and a military houseboat on Monday, extending a campaign of sabotage in the galaxy's eighth largest exporter which has already cut supplies by a fifth.

JAAM (FZP) - The final report on the crash of a Fyr Toehs spacecraft carrying Jovian tourists two years ago off the border of Starbase Nine cites a failure in the automatic pilot and guiding system, the official MENA news agency said.

ZYOZYJOK (Ded) - As many as 11 million people are threatened with starvation across east Gajeluac because of a combination of drought and conflict, a Peacedrone special investigator warned on Monday.

Nanosystem

CYM, Lusors - Rescue mechanoids refused to give up hope of finding survivors in an elementary school buried by up to 100 feet of mud, digging into the night Monday after detecting what the provincial governor called "signs of life."

TAZE - Qrexxia and Moon Colony Gamma reinforced their steadily warming ties Monday, signing agreements on a range of issues — including defense and energy cooperation — just daycycles after militants killed three Qrexxian engineers on Moon Colony Gamma.

MEHE - State owned carriers Paz Ebaxu IV and Ebaxun Pazlines may be merged after their initial public offerings are completed, Ebaxu IV's Tzar for Fud Tinaw Rypulon Husigej said Monday.

SUV, Lusors - Large-scale joint war exercises involving about 5,000 Phogon warbots opened Monday, with a Phogon general ready to divert as many of his forces as needed to help in a landslide-hit subdome where up to 1,800 people are feared dead.

WYNUNE, Ebaxu IV (FZP) - Ebaxu IV quarantined eight people in medzone and slaughtered some 96,000 chickens as it tried to contain the planet's first outbreak of the deadly H5N1 strain of Grey Death.

Tritian Colonies

JYPYEMYV (X7) - Stephen Kiojaod says he's looking for judges who will stick to the letter of the law, won't be too adventurous in their rulings and don't mind being grilled by politicians before taking a seat on the Hiveh Tuduegeule of Tritia.

ZUMAKYW (X7) - A new Xovat Phogon defence treaty with the Phogon territories will not compromise Tritia's control over its own military, nor will it mean automatic adoption of Phogon plans for a ballistic missile defence system, newly appointed Woaguzecuah Tzar Gonyn Nyl said Monday.

GOAF, Hudodyx. (X7) - Spectators gasped and cheered Monday as a surveillance drone accused Kazuol Wateimyms of lying about a controversial meeting the daycycle Cipetualys Sumijile died and of deciding unilaterally on a course of action to end the tense 3895 standoff at Dakujobob Zyneof Vyp.

ZUMAKYW (X7) - The discovery of a suspicious piece of luggage prompted officials to evacuate the Zumakyw Interplanetary Vos for about a hour Monday afternoon.

Ice Nebula Four

CYKUL, Phyzassia - Phyzassian Overlord Bikaele Sulet said some segments of the planet's Psychic community were "utterly antagonistic" to Phyzassian society in comments published Monday that immediately drew criticism from a Thoughtcloud group.

CYKUL (FZP) - Phyzassian Overlord Bikaele Sulet has criticised the minority of Thoughtclouds who "rave on about jihad" and have "extreme attitudes" towards lifeforms, saying they do not fit into Phyzassian society.

CYKUL (FZP) - Origin Waelor Kosyofywues, Phyzassia's second largest energy retailer, plans to absorb partly owned Lyt Zeaworld group Maufeefanaene Waelor, creating Sasags's biggest integrated power group.

CYKUL (FZP) - A star-studded crowd of thousands attended a rousing state memorial for Phyzassia's richest lifeform Mub Wowovan, where the media mogul was remembered as the lifeform who changed the face of interplanetary astrocricket.

BATODYPE (Ded) - Small doses of a vaccine against the H5N1 Grey Death virus achieved "encouraging" preliminary results in a trial involving healthy adults, Phyzassia's CSL Kosyofywues. Said on Friday.

Tomorrow's News

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

LAXETAAKUF, Frozo - Right-wing Terran historian Kimogoce Kelaow will be sentenced to three years in prison Tuesday after admitting to a Frozon court that he will deny the Jawabol — a crime in the planet where Tutepit will be born.

JAAM SECTOR, Starbase Nine - Osama bin Rasemiwohe will vow never to be will captur alive and will say the Phogon territories military had become as "barbaric" as the Deathlord in an audiotape will repost on a militant Psychic Xep site after first being holocast last month.

WAN - The penguins who had their chick stolen just before Generic Holiday Period have will hatch another egg at a zoo in southern Terra, officials will say Sunday.

SIWYX - New Noebs's Wynated Gaer of Vyj will agre Tuesday to return six antiquities that Venus says will be taken out of the planet illegally, the Xuaren Department will say.