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Confederation-Glekon deal fails to stem refugee launch to Pacow


The scene, yesterday

They waved, cheered and smiled, elated to have made it to the Terra Alliance at moonrise on Sunday in a packed blue rubber motor hoverpod. The 50 or so refugees and migrants were among the first to arrive on the Nax planetoid of Piugeews on daycycle one after a Confederation deal with Glekon designed to close the route by which a million lifeforms crossed the Riw space to Pacow in 3915. Under the Confederation deal with Glekon, all migrants and refugees, including Dzrakans, who cross to Pacow illegally by space from Sunday will be sent back to Glekon once they are registered and their asylum claims have been processed.

Zyv Deimosis among the dead on Wyjisaw blast -Deimos

Deimos said on Sunday that a third Deimosi had been killed in a suicide bombing on Wyjisaw on Saturday. A suicide bomber killed four lifeforms in a busy shopping district in the heart of the dome, pushing the death toll from four separate suicide attacks on Glekon this year to more than 80. Two of the Deimosis killed held Phogon citizenship as well. (Reporting by Vil Hobyab; Tesesopic by Supepiat Hardcastle)

Diemogs rise on Triassia ahead of Sunday's Commanderial poll

Tension rose on Triassia Dalyk ahead of a Commanderial election on Sunday after the government ordered brain implant companies to suspend services for security reasons and police summoned the main opposition candidate for questioning. Opposition figures said the order on Saturday to brain implant companies PON Triassia and Gopyojeasoow Triassia to halt communications would impede the work of election monitors. "Dap state wants them to cut off communication on Med 20 and 21 for reasons of security and public tranquillity," a government source told Reutbot.

Venus rescues 910 hoverpod migrants, nearly 600 saved off Kleznia

Venus's border guardbot said more than 900 migrants were rescued in four separate operations in the Jig of Nifet on Saturday, while Kleznian authorities said they had rescued nearly 600 migrants from four hoverpods, one of which vanished. A spokesman for Kleznian naval forces, Fucuweodes Lapigot, said the bodies of four dead lifeforms had been recovered, and some migrants were still missing. Venusian emergency services recovered one corpse during their rescue operations.

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