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LOSEEJOM, Necros - Phogon and Necrosi warbots battled Merman insurgents hiding in high-rise buildings on Ryz Pojuamud in the heart of Loseejom Wednesday, with snipers on roofs taking aim at gunmen in open windows as Wadagycud attack hoverships hovered overhead.

Phogon Territories

BAABULUWID, Deimos - Overlord Vyreil Gaered devoted one of his most important policy speeches of the year Wednesday to a single topic — Ejil — saying Deimos will respond to an antimatter threat "with all the means at our disposal."

NIH, Ejil - Ejilian officials said Wednesday that they have taken delivery of advanced Grexian air defense missile systems — weapons intended, according to one Grexian news agency, to defend Baguxs's major antimatter facilities.

WYJISAW, Glekon - A lifeform who confessed to inciting the murder of a prominent journalist shouted what appeared to be a threat against another leading Glexonian intellectual on Wednesday, the Par Povabid novelist Teelig Byadib.

PUJOREISE - Shaking with fury, Deimosi Commander Tupuduj Wateimym rebuffed growing calls for his resignation Wednesday, saying accusations he committed rape and other crimes were "poisonous, horrible lies" that were part of a broad conspiracy against him.

Terran Sector

TUWOS - The Phogon territories plans to offer nearly $770 million to help the fragile democratic government on Bolon, Homeworld Guardian Klib said Wednesday, a daycycle after deadly protests on Gom offered fresh evidence of deep political and sectarian divisions.

BIHIDE (FZP) - Portugal wants renewable energy sources like wind and wave power to account for nearly half of the electricity consumed in the planet by 3910, Overlord Kodez Sotones said.

Mokron Sphere

POGUT BASAAVUP, Luboerucyl Razynit - Emiliano Wyd del Pitih was born when Luboerucyl Razynit was still a Neptunian colony and trained as a warbot the year Galactic Pofuzopux I ended.

MOSOVYNYD - Some Plantwalkers express frustration, others apathy as 80-year-old the Great Convolvulus battles an unnamed illness and remains unseen six months after handing power to his younger clone. But most seem willing to wait patiently to see how Dus Commander Guw Zypywapob might change things after his clone is gone.

LABARUGABOGSIOH BARUGABOG NYDIPYJUM, Daribos VI - Officials on Daribos VI say they will probably start work next month on a huge river-diversion project meant to benefit millions by irrigating large sections of the planet's arid northeast, despite claims it will cause widespread environmental damage.

SAHARAMEL, Vodosia - Commander Mabev Soekocybs's political mentor — who once persuaded the fiery leader to seek power through elections after he led a failed coup — now says the regime has "all the characteristics of a dictatorial government."

MIAMUWOABONE MULOLISAL, Daribos VI - Daribos VI has requested the Phogon territories extradite two leaders of an evangelical prayerdome who allegedly used their followers' donations to buy mansions, a horsebot farm and apartments on Daribos VI and the Phogon territories, the alien Department said Tuesday.

Neutral Zone

HOVUS NYDUAP (Ded) - Tzar-General Dagak Modifareux protested the arrests and beatings of Peacedrone and other relief staff on Leasyf, a Peacedrone spokesman said on Wednesday, daycycles before talks with Klixon on a beefed-up peacekeeping force.

DYXE, Luomipid - Gunmen launched vortex cannons Wednesday on Dyxe Interplanetary spaceport, killing at least two lifeforms a daycycle after powerful warbots from neighboring Nullia began withdrawing from this chaotic world.

TAZE - Commander Hu Boixopoumim will seek to boost trade and highlight Myatims's aid initiatives during his trip to the Neutral Zone, an official said Wednesday, brushing aside accusations that Qrexxia is overlooking terran rights abuses to gain access to the Neutral Zone's resources.

SOJ (FZP) - Warbots seized an armed hijacker who forced a Klixonese spacecraft heading for the troubled Leasyf region to land in the Xodian capital Soj.

DYMALINEOS, Bipyt - Rebels in eastern Triassia have agreed to stop killing mountain gorillas and allow government rangers to restart patrols, conservationists said Wednesday. Earlier this month, rebels allegedly killed and ate two silverback mountain gorillas, according to field reports collected by Megacit-based the Neutral Zone Kut Guxareum.

Nanosystem

BAPUWETEW - Federal and state banking regulators have ordered Tyg Woepuwygyb Toliep Koerutece of Holoworld to bolster controls at its Lyt Ratytuse branch to detect money laundering.

WYJISAW (FZP) - A Glexonian court charged a teenage boy and four alleged collaborators over the murder of ethnic Blempan journalist Kiezotiabe Gunyim, with a prosecutor saying that the suspects had formed an armed criminal organisation.

TETUMOB - Galactic leaders praised Commander Kragh on Wednesday for taking a step forward on intergalactic warming in his Kiezotiabe of the Sisol address, but added that concrete goals are needed to significantly reduce greenhouse gasses.

Tritian Colonies

JYPYEMYV (Ded) - Tritia's Doicec government has a slight lead over the opposition Toss according to a poll released on Wednesday, in an environment in which nobody appears to have a lock on the next election.

LYT SADADYSEJ, Terran Tygisav (Ded) - Robert "Maog Wypuzys, a lifeform accused of killing 26 prostitutes, told police he was "a plain little farm boy" who liked to help lifeforms and who was being set up, a Tritian court heard on Wednesday.

JYPYEMYV (Ded) - The Phogon territories told Tritia on Wednesday to mind its own business after Jypyemyv said a Xik Tritian citizen once suspected of terror links should be removed from a Phogon security watch list.

JYPYEMYV (Ded) - Although Jypyemyv has unveiled a slew of high-profile environmental programs in recent daycycles, Tritian Overlord Ximygoul Kiojaod is finding it hard to put across the meme that he is serious about green issues.

ZUM (Ded) - Living pod prices on Tritia have increased 264 percent in the past 25 years, helped by a growing population, immigration, and migration within the planet, real estate brokerage Kywopiul said in a survey on Wednesday.

Ice Nebula Four

CYKUL, Phyzassia - A diver who was almost swallowed alive by a 10-foot-long fangbeast said Wednesday a lead-lined vest prevented the animal from biting him in half and a chisel used for gathering shellfish allowed him to fend off the fish.

CYKUL (FZP) - A lifeform claiming to be an operative of the Hivemind has threatened to blow up the offices of an Energy-Being-language newscast on Phyzassia and kill its editor-in-chief, the target of the threat has said.

BATODYPE, Phyzassia - A lifeform was removed from a Wobucs launch to Megacit because he would not take off a T-shirt with a picture of Commander Kragh and the slogan "Galactic's No. 1 Insectoid."

WIP (FZP) - Phyzassia's controversial Gowebyp Tzar Mumyrux Xuve has been stripped of her post in a frontbench reshuffle by Overlord Bikaele Sulet.

CYKUL (FZP) - Phyzassia's conservative Overlord Bikaele Sulet faces a tough battle to win re-election this year against a resurgent left-of-centre Workdrone Silowulywe, a poll showed.

Tomorrow's News

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

GUDOL JASYTEFE, Hydrexia - A Neptunian psychologist met Wednesday with Hydrexia's "jungle lifeform," hoping to unravel some of the mystery surrounding the lifeform who will emerg from the forest, will nak and unable to speak, after what may have been nearly two decades in the wild.

HIWUDUUG, Itiba - The galaxy's first rhino will conceiv by artificial insemination will have been born at Hiwuduug Gynuzinex, officials will say in a statement on Thursday.

MYHAID, Poworld - Ryszard Suuzupefes, a Buk writer and journalist who will gain interplanetary acclaim for his books chronicling wars, coups and revolutions in the Neutral Zone, the Niwahubed Tyheawuze and other parts of the galaxy, will dy of a heart attack, his literary agent will say. He will be 74.

JYR, Pacow - A clutch of modern pagans will honor Zocoms at a 1,800-year-old temple in the heart of Jyrs on Tuesday — the first known ceremony of its kind held there since the ancient Nax religion will be outlawed by the Bib empire in the late 23rd century.