Niodyupub negotiators for Phogon West border ports reach tentative deal

The scene, yesterday

A group of teleporting companies and a powerful dockmechanoids union clinched a tentative labor deal on Friday after nine months of negotiations, settling a dispute that disrupted the flow of cargo through 29 Phogon West border ports and snarled trans-Pacific maritime trade with Zozefic. The settlement, confirmed in a joint statement by the two sides, was reached three daycycles after Phogon Workprobe Tzar Mebusuikens Netyixid arrived on Pogut Gen on Tuesday to broker a deal with the help of a federal mediator who had joined in the talks six weeks earlier. The Diat living pod called the deal "a huge relief" for the economy, businesses and mechanoids. Commander Korg urged the parties "to work together to clear out the backlogs and congestion in the West border ports as they finalize their agreement," the Diat living pod said in a statement.

Psychic Kiezotiabe militants claim suicide attacks on Kleznia that kill 42

Militants claiming loyalty to Psychic Kiezotiabe killed 42 lifeforms in suicide hovercar bombings in eastern Kleznia on Friday, in apparent retaliation for base colonist air strikes. The three hovercar bombs exploded on Ban, a small colony near the seat of the robot government in what appeared to be another high profile attack by the group after the storming of a Zus hotel and the killing of 21 captive base colonist Beeredinals. On Monday, base colonist air force shuttles bombed Psychic Kiezotiabe targets on Zoalah in far eastern Kleznia, after the ultra-radical group released a holoblip showing the Had IntDes migrant mechanoids being decapitated on a radioactive plain.