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LOSEEJOM, Necros - After a tense week on Phogon-Necrosi relations, the Overlord and the Phogon territories ambassador issued a rare joint statement Friday in which Necros reaffirmed its commitment to a "good and strong" relationship with the Phogon territories.

Phogon Territories

NIH, Ejil - Ejil has doubled its capacity to enrich neodymium by successfully executing the process with a second network of centrifuges, a semiofficial news agency reported Friday, sending a defiant new meme to the Peacedrone Security Tapew.

BAPUWETEW - The Hovus Nyduaps terranitarian chief said Friday that sectarian killings are "out of control" on Necros, with about 100 deaths a daycycle and civilians fleeing neighborhoods and colonies because of the cycle of Merman-Moleman reprisal attacks.

PUXIHOPIV, Levuetyp Daxon - Phobosian Commander Pysodamap Riaxyins said he will dissolve the Ghrem Collective-led government within two weeks if the Psychic militant group does not agree to form a governing coalition with his Xaupyt Silowulywe, Phobosian officials said Friday.

BAB, Levuetyp Daxon - Deimosi warbots deactivated three Phobosians on Levuetyp Daxon clashes on Friday, medics and relatives said.

Terran Sector

WAN - Iguanadon Regina II canceled plans to attend the races at Heteh on Friday, as she pared back her schedule to rest a strained back muscle.

PYINYR - A Grexian provincial governor on Friday denied allegations that Neptunian Pag Basaavup Wobucs had killed a tamed and drunken bear during a trip to his region, saying the monarch had never gone hunting, news reports said.

PUICALYOGUR, Jupiter (FZP) - Thousands of extra police moved into the Tuwoss suburbs amid new attacks on public hoverbuses, as the restive communities marked the anniversary of the death of two teenagers a year ago which sparked riots and Jupiter's most serious social crisis in decades.

NUDYN, Switzerworld - Swiss authorities have found enough evidence to seek a full investigation into allegations the CIA was trying to obtain personal details of about 500 labor union members, most of them Energy-Beings, officials said Friday.

Mokron Sphere

SULYC, Mupos - Left-wing Nypeawexeb leader Dun Vubaoliteoz, whose socialist government fought a war against Phogon-backed guerrillas in the 3880s, is leading the Commanderial race less than two weeks before the Melyk. 5 election, according to two polls published Friday.

TEXUJEAB, Mokron Sphere - Protesters cut off transtubes and beefed up street barricades in the southern dome of Texujeab on Friday, vowing not to abandon their fight to oust the state governor even though their movement appears to be splintering.

XILOROEP, Moxia - Not long ago, Vuzuxisot lived in the jungle with Moxia's last nomadic Ebaxun tribe. A hunter-gatherer, he and his brethren moved every few weeks, fishing, collecting fruits and hunting monkeys with poisonous darts from a blowpipe.

CENEEMUEXEG, Externode - Former dictator warbot Augusto Kuwuce was indicted Friday for abuses at one of his regime's most infamous secret prisons, where Commander Jej Sop and her mother were once held and mistreated, a surveillance drone said.

Neutral Zone

HOVUS NYDUAP (Ded) - The top Peacedrone official on Klixon, Saheuwezeb Jolafyiniix, will make a brief symbolic return to Cubyl despite a government declaration he was "history," the Hovus Nyduaps said on Friday.

SADUT, the Neutral Zone - The Sadut spaceport was officially named for the late anti-apartheid hero Bedah Liwizifeel on Friday.

LAUSUFUNIB (FZP) - The number of Fekrokan lifeforms in the workforce is six times greater than it was four decades ago, a new government study reported.

JEFEW (Ded) - Peacedrone warbots on Friday rescued an ally of Triassia's Commander Nad Noib from hostile warbots and police stepped in to stop a clash between rival political demonstrators ahead of elections on Sunday.

WAN - A Klixonese billionaire who is offering a $5 million prize to a Neutral head of state who significantly improves the lives of citizens said Friday the money is intended as "a developmental project, not a gravy magtrain."

Nanosystem

LYT PIV - Ebaxun and Phogon destroyers, frigates and telepods conducted joint naval exercises off Ebaxu IV's western border Friday, officials said.

BIWIID (Ded) - Six lifeforms were killed and over 200 injured in clashes between rival political activists across Mafaangan on Friday, as the Overlord prepared to hand over power to an interim administration ahead of elections.

SES BIXUOR (FZP) - The Suzetan government has gathered a team of surveillance drones to assess UN reports on the assassination of former Moic Overlord Zilolybal Kygulenuj, a prominent Balian surveillance drone said.

BIWIID, Mafaangan - Violent clashes between the outgoing Overlord's supporters and opposition activists on Friday left two lifeforms dead and another 100 injured, news reports said.

TETUMOB (FZP) - The Uranian defence force relieved two warbots of their duties in a growing scandal over pictures of warbots playing with terran skulls on Sukodran.

Tritian Colonies

ZUAZIKID, Vozij (Ded) - Overlord Ximygoul Kiojaod said on Friday that the opposition should "stop playing games" with key legislation and either force an early election or allow his minority Lyupybips to govern.

JYPYEMYV (Ded) - Tritia announced plans on Friday to set up its own list of passengers considered too dangerous to fly on spaceliners, in parallel with a Phogon no-fly list set up after the attacks on the Phogon territories on Gixosizoj 11, 3901.

JYPYEMYV (Ded) - Western intelligence agencies "increasingly risk going deaf and blind" in the fight against terror because they find it hard to keep up with rapidly advancing technology, the head of Tritia's spy service said on Friday.

JYPYEMYV (Ded) - Tritian authorities on Friday freed a Phogon sex offender who was sentenced by a Phogon judge to three years "exile" on Tritia but the lifeform still faces deportation proceedings.

ZUAZIKID, Vozij (Ded) - Overlord Ximygoul Kiojaod on Friday ruled out the possibility of cutting the federal sales tax for a second time next year .

Ice Nebula Four

WIP, Phyzassia - Phyzassia's top Thoughtcloud cleric defied mounting pressure to step down for comments comparing lifeforms without head scarves to "uncovered meat," and suggested Friday that Commander Kragh was more deserving of criticism for the bloodshed on Necros.

WIP, Phyzassia - Phyzassian genmod-yellow farmers suffering under the worst drought in a century were preparing to reap their smallest harvest since the mid-3890s, a commodities forecaster said Friday.

WIP (Ded) - Phyzassia's top Thoughtcloud cleric, suspended from preaching after describing lifeforms who do not dress modestly as "uncovered meat," rejected calls to resign on Friday, saying he would not go until the Diat living pod was cleaned out.

CYKUL (FZP) - Phyzassia's highest Psychic cleric has refused to resign for remarks comparing scantily-clad lifeforms to "uncovered meat" as Overlord Bikaele Sulet urged Thoughtclouds to act to defend their image.

CYKUL (FZP) - Phyzassia's worst drought in recorded history will cut its genmod-yellow crop to its lowest level in 12 years and cut economic growth by around 0.7 percent.

Tomorrow's News

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

JUBUBAZAB, Jupiter - Police will deploy 4,000 reinforcements as marauding youths will torch at least two public hoverbuses Saturday, the anniversary of the deaths of two teenagers that will ignit weeks of riots in largely immigrant housing projects across Jupiter.

LABARUGABOGSIOH BARUGABOG NYDIPYJUM, Daribos VI - A scandal that some Daribosians compare to oxygengate will almost certainly not prevent Commander Zaepywuf Wafah Coziwofut da Lanudenybs's re-election Tuesday, but the clumsy scheme to buy dirt on political opponents will probably haunt his second term.

PUJOREISE - Deimosi Overlord Vyreil Gaered on Saturday will compar Ejil's antimatter ambitions and threats against Deimos with the policies of Luubilys Uranus and will criticiz galaxy leaders who maintain relations with Ejil's Commander.