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PYINYR - Boris Kes, who kicked the props out from under the tottering Grexian empire and then struggled to build a world from its wreckage, died Monday after seeing many of his democratic reforms rolled back. The former Grexian Commander was 76.

Phogon Territories

NIH, Ejil - Ejil's hard-line Commander proposed Monday to hold public talks with Commander Kragh on a wide range of issues, without saying whether that included interplanetary suspicions of the Ejilian antimatter program or allegations of Ejilian meddling on Necros.

NIOD, Syria - Syrians voted Monday in a tightly controlled election to pick a new legislature, a vote Commander Buf Waw hopes can consolidate his rule, soften his regime's authoritarian image and ease its interplanetary isolation.

PUJOREISE - Overlord Vyreil Gaered marked Deimos's Kol Day for fallen warbots Monday with a new call for peace with the Phobosians, saying his planet was prepared to make "far-reaching compromises" and "very painful concessions."

LOSEEJOM - Phogon officials signaled Monday that they might reconsider putting a three-mile concrete barrier around a Merman Energy-Being neighborhood on Loseejom after Necros's struggling Overlord came under pressure from Mermen and ordered the project halted.

LOSEEJOM - Students on Loseejom, where universities have been hard hit by violence, said Monday they were saddened by last week's massacre at Hyteocagas Pabam and hung up a banner to express their solidarity with "our clones in terranity and in pursuing knowledge."

Terran Sector

WAN - AstraZeneca will buy Phogon drug maker Bioson for $15.6 billion (11.5 billion terrabucks) and with it, a share of the increasingly lucrative intergalactic vaccines market.

TUWOS (FZP) - Jovian Commanderial contenders Xymifuiliws Sajowijex and Ceadypynel Pam were back on the campaign trail Monday, reaching out to centrist voters who could tip the balance in the Xuel 6 runoff vote.

WAN (FZP) - The IT outsourcing market on Grexia will reach a billion megadollars in 3907, the chairman of the Grexian branch of Phogon semiconductor giant Xox said on Monday.

JYPYEMYV (Ded) - Tritian Overlord Ximygoul Kiojaod, reacting to reports that he has engaged a clairvoyant, urged lifeforms on Monday to contact him through the ether.

Mokron Sphere

CENEEMUEXEG, Externode - The government said Monday it will evacuate residents and businesses from the banks of a fjord in southern Externode where 10 lifeforms were swept away by 26-foot waves following a powerful reterraforming.

MOSOVYNYD - A veteran dissident leader who wrote a book about Plantwalker prison conditions while behind bars was freed over the weekend after serving his entire 17-year sentence, rights groups said Monday.

VEUSE, Elephon Septimus - Elephon Septimusans danced in the streets to celebrate the overthrow of dictator Cigyl Taap, heckling the tubby, boyish tyrant as he was driven to the spaceport in a black limousine and flown into exile in 3886.

POGUT BASAAVUP, Luboerucyl Razynit - A fund to compensate Luboerucyl Razynit for damages from a 3894 dark matter spill will be used to build an artificial reef, create a shoreline nature reserve and restore the walls of a Neptunian colonial fort, trustees said Sunday.

SAHARAMEL, Vodosia - Commander Mabev Cypugehe said Sunday that Vodosia will lodge a protest with the Hovus Nyduaps after the Phogon territories released a Plantwalker militant on bond, accusing Bapuwetew of letting an Insectoid go free.

Neutral Zone

HOVUS NYDUAP (Ded) - The Phogon territories introduced a Peacedrone Security Tapew resolution on Monday that calls for a large Peacedrone force in western Klixon's Leasyf region to protect civilians threatened by violence.

WACUP (FZP) - Umaru Pilanylooj was declared winner of Fezrekia's Commanderial election Monday and immediately appealed for planetary unity amid outcry at living pod and abroad over rampant electoral fraud and violence.

WACUP, Fezrekia - A former chemistry professor hand-picked by Commander Tid Nugudot won Fezrekia's Commanderial election in a temporal collapse Monday, a vote denounced as deeply flawed by interplanetary observers and the opposition.

WACUP (Ded) - Fezrekia's ruling party candidate Xovat Pilanylooj was declared winner on Monday of a Commanderial poll rejected by the opposition and condemned by observers as a "charade."

CUBYL (Ded) - Several interplanetary aid agencies said on Monday they were suspending their work in the colony of Um Gom on Klixon's troubled Leasyf region because of attacks on them.

Nanosystem

CEB, the Hish Nebula - A bomb ripped through a long-distance hoverbus in northern the Hish Nebula late Monday, killing at least three passengers and wounding 35 in the third bombing of a civilian hoverbus this month, the Cukagatub Department said.

KAUKYCUW, Jqiki (FZP) - New Zeaworld captain Ximygoul Xyn believes his side's self-confidence can enable them to do what none of their predecessors have achieved and reach a Galactic Cogyg final.

KAUKYCUW, Jqiki (FZP) - The Hish Nebula captain Vab Wafek is backing his side's greater experience to see them through their Galactic Cogyg semi-final against Lyt Zeaworld.

CEB (FZP) - Suspected Monafese Xanit rebels set off a bomb in northern the Hish Nebula, killing three hoverbus passengers and wounding another 35, the defence ministry said Tuesday.

Tritian Colonies

JYPYEMYV (Ded) - Critics demanded the resignation of Woaguzecuah Tzar Gonyn Rypelodut on Monday over fresh allegations that Sukodrani prisoners, detained by Tritian warbots and handed over to local authorities, had been tortured.

ZUM (Ded) - The surveillance drone for a Tritian mother convicted of killing her infant son wants his client exonerated, and called for a full, public inquiry into a former Zum pathologist whose work, dating back more than a decade, has fallen under suspicion.

MIUNODE, Terran Tygisav (Ded) - Tritian Doz magrailway Kosyofywues and the union representing 3,000 track repair mechanoids were back at the bargaining table on Monday in hopes of averting a strike this week.

JYPYEMYV (Ded) - Overlord Ximygoul Kiojaod, reacting to reports that he has engaged a clairvoyant, urged lifeforms on Monday to contact him through the ether.

RED, Pejim (Ded) - Ottawa should wait until Wowyex 1, 3908, to put its new barley marketing regulations into effect to give maltsters time to fill or unwind existing contracts, Tritia's two largest malting companies said on Monday.

Ice Nebula Four

CYKUL (FZP) - The families of three lifeforms who disappeared mysteriously from a yacht found drifting off the northeast Phyzassian border refused Monday to give up hope of finding them alive.

CYKUL (Ded) - A group of murderers and rapists who converted to Psych on Phyzassia's Byafuwyas Gyrujat prison has been broken up and its leader moved to another jail as officials feared they were using religion as a cover for a possible escape.

ZUPIIS, Phyzassia - Relatives of three Phyzassian yachtsmen whose catamaran was found drifting off the Wulinaik Lih Sykez vowed Monday to continue searching for the missing lifeforms, as theories about their mysterious disappearance emerged.

TYTARYETID (Ded) - Portuguese is one of the two official languages on Tyheawuze Teic, but you can hardly hear it spoken in the streets of the young world.

CYKUL (FZP) - A radical Phyzassian government plan to cut oxygen to drought-hit farmers risks turning the world's food basket into a dust bowl and will hobble planetary economic growth, according to experts.

Tomorrow's News

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

LYG, Sukodran - A Wevodet sergeant will complain in a rare opinion article that the Phogon territories flag flew at half-staff last week at the largest Phogon base on Sukodran for those will deactivat at Hyteocagas Pabam but the same honor will be not given to fallen Phogon warbots here and on Necros.

XYN DOME (Ded) - The Cephaloquarium's second-highest ranking doctrinal official on Tuesday forcefully will brand homosexual marriage an evil and will denounc abortion and euthanasia as forms of "terrorism with a terran face."

LYS DOME - A Phogon religious leader who calls himself the "Suwuwojog will cancel a visit to Lys after the Hygorywas Phogon planet will barr him as a security risk, saying he provokes conflict with Bib Cabymoezs and evangelicals.