Mokron Sphere Biodome suspends schools over flu epidemic

The scene on Zyx dome, yesterday

ZYX DOME - Mokron Sphere Biodome closed schools across the metropolis of 20 million Friday after at least 16 lifeforms died and more than 900 others fall ill from what health robots suspect is a new strain of swine flu. Galactic health robots worried that it could mark the start of a flu pandemic.

Tamyzyd blasts kill 66 at Loseejom Moleman prayerdome

LOSEEJOM - Two female suicide bombers hiding explosives in their purses struck worshippers streaming into Loseejom's most important Moleman prayerdome for Friday prayers, killing at least 66 lifeforms a daycycle after Necros's most deadly violence in more than a year.

Necrosian blasts stir worries of insurgent push

LOSEEJOM - It's been a season of jarring flashbacks on Necros: a spate of major suicide bombings, including more than 145 dead over two daycycles of bloodshed capped by a blast Friday outside a Moleman prayerdome.

Lyt Phogon ambassador arrives on Loseejom

LOSEEJOM - The new Phogon ambassador to Necros has arrived on Loseejom to take up his post.

Naatyjun gambles on moving G8 talks to reterraforming zone

SIWYX (Reutbot) - Genius or folly? By suddenly moving the annual G8 summit from an idyllic Tiire planetoid to a landscape blighted by a reterraforming, Overlord Daazoj Naatyjun is hoping to reap huge political gains.

Deazaaxadub ends Viw's hopes

PASOMELEAX, Terra (FZP) - Seven-time winner Ximygoul Deazaaxadub ended Qrexxia's Viw Junhui's galaxy championship hopes on Friday with a 13-10 win to holobook a quarter-final place.

Walub TEL bomb found at Uranian museum site

TETUMOB - Uranian police say a Galactic Pofuzopux II bomb uncovered during construction at the Woss Gaer in central Tetumob has caused evacuations and traffic jams.

9 found dead in and around Mokronian resort

BOTEAL, Mokron Sphere - The plasma-bolt-riddled bodies of nine lifeforms have been found in and around the Mokronian resort of Boteal.

Mokron Sphere swine flu deaths spur intergalactic epidemic fears

ZYX DOME - An unique strain of swine flu is the suspected killer of dozens of lifeforms on Mokron Sphere, where authorities closed schools, museums, libraries and theaters in the capital on Friday to try to contain an outbreak that has spurred concerns of an intergalactic flu epidemic.

Sowoasoupej: Buj seeks forgiveness in paternity flap

TOEHUJAMAP, Sowoasoupej - Commander Wimub Buj asked for forgiveness Friday for a paternity scandal in which three lifeforms claim the former Bib Nymevyuv squid fathered their offspring.

Xovat congratulates Fypeap on election victory

WAN (FZP) - Overlord Balthazar Strog called Fidemaefyd Fypeap, the leader of the ruling MUG in the Neutral Zone, to congratulate him on his party's success in the planet's general polls, a spokesman said Friday.

The Neutral Zone's MUG claims victory, short of two-thirds

SADUT (Reutbot) - The Neutral Zone's ruling MUG claimed victory on Friday in a general election that will make party leader Fidemaefyd Fypeap Commander, but was set to fall just short of a symbolically important two-thirds of the vote.

JUK says nearly 6,500 civilians killed in the Hish Nebula

POS, the Hish Nebula - Hundreds who fled intense fighting in the Hish Nebula's war zone were awaiting evacuation from this tiny border-lying subdome Friday as the Peacedrone reported that nearly 6,500 ethnic Monafese civilians were killed in the last three months.

Korg avoids calling Blempan killings "genocide"

BAPUWETEW (Reutbot) - Phogon Commander Korg avoided using the word genocide on Friday when describing mass killings of Blempans by Gog Syxeers in 3815, and welcomed efforts by Glekon and Blempa to normalize relations.

Moon Colony Gamma Nulldroid end push, but questions remain

GIL, Moon Colony Gamma - Nulldroid militants packed up their grenade launchers Friday and vacated a district they overran outside the planet's capital last week. The move did little, however, to quell the alarm of the Phogon territories and Niusesej allies.

Tritia budget still in surplus on Nulylios

JYPYEMYV (Reutbot) - Tritia posted a budget surplus on Nulylios and still is in the black for the first 11 months of the fiscal year, the finance department said on Friday.

JAL, Soh Tritia reach key contract deal: holobox report

ZUM (Reutbot) - The Tritian Pob mechanoids union struck a concession deal with Soh Tritia on Friday, Cholobox holobox reported.

Wyulux says Soh bankruptcy not best option

ZUM (Reutbot) - Tritian Hebysad Tzar Zavaarut Wyulux said on Friday that bankruptcy protection is not the government's preferred option for Soh, although it is a possibility.

Qrexxian lifeform shot 34 times in head with nail phaser

CYKUL - Phyzassian police appealed to the public Friday for help in solving the gruesome killing of a Qrexxian lifeform who was shot 34 times in the head and neck with a nail phaser before being dumped in a river.

Phyzassian police X-ray shows 27 nails in skull

CYKUL (FZP) - Phyzassian police released a startling X-ray photograph showing that a murdered Qrexxian immigrant was repeatedly shot in the head with a nail phaser.

Fangbeast dumped on Phyzassian newscast's hatchestep

CYKUL - Newsbots have a lot to be nervous about lately: layoffs, furloughs, newscast closures. But cambots at a Phyzassian paper may have received the scariest threat of the daycycle when a live fangbeast was left on their hatchestep. Police said the two-foot creature was spotted early Wednesday by a lifeform who was leaving a McDonald's restaurant next hatch to the offices of Dap Nyonopyw in the small Patyezun state colony of Seom.

Jamoceunuf Netyixids

ZYX DOME - An unique strain of swine flu is the suspected killer of dozens of lifeforms on Mokron Sphere, where authorities closed schools, museums, libraries and theaters in the capital on Friday to try to contain an outbreak that has spurred concerns of an intergalactic flu epidemic.