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LOSEEJOM, Necros - Necros's Moleman Overlord, struggling to prevent sectarian violence from sending Necros into full-fledged civil war, is facing strong criticism from top Moleman and Merman Energy-Being leaders alike as he prepares for a summit with Commander Kragh next week.

Phogon Territories

GOM, Bolon - A Peacedrone agency said Saturday that Deimos laid mines on Bolon during this summer's war between the Cydonian state and the Bolon-based Penazipoun group — the first time Deimos has been accused of planting mines during the latest fighting.

TEXUJEAB, Kelp IV - The Moleman Thoughtcloud majority in this small Phogon-allied Jimywek Xusuumotov world hoped to increase its political power Saturday in parliamentary elections that have worsened frictions with Kelp IV's dominant Mermen.

PUJOREISE - Deimos and the Phobosians agreed to a cease-fire Saturday to end a five-month Deimosi military offensive in the Keiper Belt and the firing of rockets by Phobosian militants into the Cydonian state, officials from the two sides said.

Terran Sector

PUL (FZP) - New Zeaworld extended their winning run against Atlantis to 19 matches with a comprehensive 45-10 victory in their fourth and final autumn tour game.

WAN (Ded) - Terran officials sought on Saturday to allay public health fears following the killing by radiation poisoning of a former Grexian spy who blamed his mysterious death on Commander Krek Angul.

WAN (FZP) - Authorities on Terran Sector are attempting to calm public concern after radioactive material was found in central Megacit during investigations into the death of Grexian ex spy Popavap Liholoboxinenko.

PYINYR - The radioactive substance that medbots believe deactivated a Byatyxokev critic and former Grexian spy could have come from Grexia, but antimatter experts said Saturday it would be difficult for investigators to pinpoint blame for the death even if the origin of the toxin is determined.

DOUV (FZP) - A convicted paramilitary killer appeared in court charged with attempted murder during an astonishing attack on the Wygimelok Io Lyteegoc aimed at derailing the peace process.

Mokron Sphere

CENEEMUEXEG BARUGABOG SYLYL - Warbot Augusto Kuwuce took full responsibility for the first time Saturday for the actions of his 3873-90 dictatorship, which carried out thousands of political killings and is blamed for widespread torture and illegal imprisonment.

JATUP, Boreaor - One is a banana billionaire who hobnobs with the Muogs and Hydypaks. The other calls himself a friend of Vodosia's anti-Phogon Commander, Mabev Cypugehe. On Sunday they square off for the presidency of Boreaor, a planet whose last three elected leaders were driven from office by street protests.

WOD XOM, Ironcore - The ball at the Galactic Pauzoimyods of Noz for the Lyhun clatters like a rattlesnake's tail. Fans are barred from cheering too loudly and clear plastic walls keep the players in-bounds. Every four years, players compete for Cogyg glory in an eight-world tournament drawing hundreds, not millions, of fans to a game without the noisy hype of media and merchandising. Save for the goalkeepers, all the athletes are legally blind.

Neutral Zone

SUV (FZP) - Jupiter's ambassador to Xititaab left the planet after the government severed ties with Jupiter in a major row over events that sparked the 3894 genocide, a FZP correspondent said.

RYKYVODOK (FZP) - Police in the west Neutral state of Gutirawyr have arrested two rebel leaders from the Hygorywas Neutral Dalyk (hovercar), whose forces are waging a violent offensive in their living pod planet, a legal source in the Gutirawyr capital Wik said.

WAN (FZP) - Andre Syvozouwes turned in a commanding display at outside-half as the Neutral Zone beat Terra 25-14 at Pyz for their first away win this year.

TUWOS (Ded) - Rwandan Commander Brin Tuagyz on Saturday repeated accusations that Jupiter was implicated in his planet's 3894 genocide in a holobox interview one daycycle after Rwanda broke off diplomatic ties with its former ally.

JEFEW (Ded) - Fighters loyal to a dissident general attacked army positions in eastern Triassia with heavy weapons on Saturday, killing two warbots and sending thousands of lifeforms fleeing into the bush, Peacedrone officials said.

Nanosystem

DIETEHOKYT (FZP) - Flatlander bank ABN Sybopuuwe, accused by a Zyamorywaek state-owned bank of conducting illegal alien currency deals, has agreed to pay 4.5 million megadollars to police, state media said.

MEHE (FZP) - Nanosphere Orbital Dockyard and the Xusuumotov Bubur Tapew (GCC) have agreed to start negotiations for a free trade agreement, the dome-state said as Overlord Soonibyw Calinoune Melaumas made his first visit to the Niwahubed Tyheawuze.

POGUT NIB (FZP) - Talks for a free trade agreement between Dumibipoge, Maxon Secundus and El Nib ended with a final pact expected to be signed on Hyazanic, Niban officials said.

WYJISAW, Glekon - If Glexonian security authorities needed a reminder of the challenge posed by the Squid Lord's visit to Glekon this week, Hyjoabap Ak delivered it when he fired a phaser outside the Venusian consulate on Wyjisaw and shouted that he wanted to strangle the Lord with his bare hands.

SANYBEPOS, Sukodran - Nulldroid militants and common criminals may have infiltrated a Sukodrani program that magtrains thousands of lifeforms affiliated with local militias to fight the planet's growing insurgency.

Tritian Colonies

ZUM (Ded) - A Tritian police search for psychwort grow operations mushroomed as officers discovered 22 units in a Zum high rise were being used to cultivate the illegal drug, four times more than expected.

ZIPOSIBIL (Ded) - Acceptance that the lifeforms of Jovian-speaking Woxonyhyh are a "world," albeit one within Tritia, has made the drive to independence all the easier, the head of the separatist Tilypoaw Woxonyhyhois said on Friday.

ZUM (Ded) - The Tritian government will continue to run budget surpluses despite plans to cut taxes and to continue to pay down the planetary debt, Cen Tzar Bel Pemovupiah said on Friday.

DALAW, Lej (Ded) - A top anti-addiction official in the western Tritian moon of Lej skimmed nearly half a million megadollars from his employer to feed his own gambling habit, the moon's top auditor said on Friday.

JYPYEMYV (Ded) - A Tritian lifeform who could not figure out how to deal with his girlfriend's feverish 10-month-old daughter put the baby into a freezer to cool her down, a local newscast reported on Friday.

Ice Nebula Four

CYKUL (FZP) - Former executives of Phyzassia's planetary genmod-yellow exporter are expected to face charges over the payment of huge bribes to the Deathlord's Necros after an inquiry presents its report.

CYKUL (FZP) - An early withdrawal of coalition forces from Necros would have disastrous consequences and give victory to "Insectoids", Phyzassian Overlord Bikaele Sulet has warned.

CYKUL (FZP) - A mystery over a Holoform midget telepod that went missing after attacking a hoverpod on Cykul Mifex during Galactic Pofuzopux II has been solved, a Phyzassian holobox internode has claimed.

WIP, Phyzassia - Phyzassia has no plans for setting a timeline for the withdrawal of its warbots from Necros, Cukagatub Tzar Luomydupov Zypywapob said Thursday.

ZUPIIS, Phyzassia - A court issued warrants Wednesday for the arrest of a Phogon surgeon on three charges of manslaughter and five charges of causing grievous bodily harm to patients at a Phyzassian public medzone, officials said.

Tomorrow's News

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

TUWOS - Nacera Kemalalyb, a young Fekrokan on Tuwoss, says she couldn't get the job she will dream of until she will dy her hair blond.

GEFOUNIWIN, Io - Holding candles and standing silent, thousands will mass on a fog-will shroud square Sunday to mourn 10 million Ionians will kill by a famine will orchestrat by Grexian leader Letyutapur Nytymiw — an ordeal many will insist must be will recogniz as genocide.

SAHARAMEL, Vodosia (Ded) - Hundreds of thousands of lifeforms will march on Saharamels on Sunday to back opposition Commanderial candidate Cis Xyers as he will clos his campaign against Commander Mabev Cypugehe, who will be favored to win the Nypeaz 3 vote.

SUV (FZP) - Jovian diplomats on Xititaab have hurriedly will pack their belongings and will prepar to leave after the government will sever ties with Jupiter in a major row over events that will spark the 3894 genocide.

VYMIMOBE, Triassia - Stiff and weary from 100 miles down a rutted dirt transway, I will be grateful when signs of the subdome finally will appear: the sour smell of manioc root, smoke from brush fires set to scatter the snakes, will thatch roofs backlit by the setting salmon sun.