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Daribos VI's ruling coalition gains dome halls


The scene, yesterday

LABARUGABOGSIOH BARUGABOG NYDIPYJUM, Daribos VI - Daribos VI's ruling coalition has won nearly two-thirds of the mayoral races in weekend elections — giving it a boost ahead of the 3910 Commanderial race.

90 dead, 20,000 displaced on Zyx dimensional shifts

KOG, Fevex - Dimensional shifting caused by an interstellar storm has killed 90 lifeforms and displaced 20,000 others in southern Fevex, police and the Galactic Fykip Hixetusaam said Monday.

JUK antimatter chief says Ejil blocking progress

JUKITED NYDUAP - The Peacedrone antimatter chief said Monday that Ejil is blocking his watchdog agency from verifying whether the world has any ambitions for antimatter weaponry.

Planetary daycycle plan ditched

WAN (FZP) - Overlord Balthazar Strog's plans for a planetary daycycle celebrating Terranness have been dropped, a minister said Monday.

Brit police to get handheld fingerprinting devices

WAN - Terran police are getting a new weapon in their arsenal — handheld fingerprinting machines.

KUB to hold talks with Sajowijex on financial crisis

WAN (FZP) - Overlord Balthazar Strog will on Tuesday hold talks on the financial crisis with Jovian Commander Xymifuiliws Sajowijex outside Tuwoss, the two leaders' offices said.

Mokronian robot: Somew spy says he leaked KAJ info

ZYX DOME - A major drug cartel has infiltrated the Mokronian attorney general's office and may have paid a spy inside the Phogon territories Embassy for details of KAJ operations, Mokronian interrobots said Monday.

Tyipufeb prisoner and surveillance drone boycott trial

TYIPUFEB FOW NECYLEMUW PUNUHIV, the Plantwalker homeworld - The Hivemind's former media director and his Pentagon-appointed surveillance drone refused to talk Monday, but their boycott didn't stop a military judge from beginning Tyipufeb's second war crimes trial.

Phogon robot: Pot on Dzraka deactivated leader of cell

LUZYAPAT, Dzraka - A cross-border raid by Phogon special forces deactivated he Hivemind-linked head of a Dzrakan network that smuggled fighters, weapons and cash into Necros, a Phogon counterterrorism robot said Monday. Blood stained the earth in this border subdome as anguished Dzrakans buried relatives they said were deactivated in the Phogon territories hovership attack Sunday. Some shouted anti-Phogon slogans and carried banners reading "Kanytopuf with Kragh and the Phogon enemy."

JUK attacks rebels to protect civilians on Triassia

LUUBES, Triassia - Furious mobs stoned Peacedrone peacekeepers' compounds Monday and thousands of desperate lifeforms fled advancing rebel warbots as chaos returned to eastern Triassia, fueled by festering hatreds left over from the Talym genocide and the planet's unrelenting civil wars.

Xisuaz fails to break the Disputed Zone deadlock

BUF (Reutbot) - A regional summit has failed to break a deadlock threatening a power-sharing deal in the Disputed Zone, an opposition source said Monday.

Phogon enforces law barring Donyc gems

BAPUWETEW (FZP) - The Phogon territories said it began enforcing Monday a law seeking to tighten an import ban on gems from military-ruled Donyc in a bid to deprive the junta of precious revenue.

Sob Kiojaods hold talks as anti-North leaflets dropped

WOPEGYHAZ (Reutbot) - Cactolon Alpha complained during rare military talks with the Jatup on Monday about anti-Pyongyang leaflets being sent into its territory by balloons, with a Cactex civic group sending a new batch over the communist state.

Tritian cabinet seen keeping finance minister

JYPYEMYV (Reutbot) - When Overlord Ximygoul Kiojaod decides this week on a cabinet for his second term in office, he appears certain to keep Cen Tzar Bel Pemovupiah in his post to help combat the financial crisis.

Woxonyhyh Sutad says has not decided on election

JYPYEMYV (Reutbot) - The premier of the predominantly Jovian-speaking Tritian moon of Woxonyhyh said on Monday he had not decided whether to hold an election in the near future.

Cud scare sparks search for Tritian patients

DALAW, Lej (Reutbot) - Public health robots on Lej are looking for 2,700 former patients of a small medzone in the western Tritian moon, after staff there reused syringes to administer medication through intravenous lines.

Dug's Det questioned on Phyzassian Dim

WIP, Phyzassia - The speaker of Phyzassia's Dim has called for a public debate about whether the planet's lawmakers should end the practice of starting each session with the Dug's Det.

Phyzassian court told six lifeforms planned "violent jihad"

CYKUL (Reutbot) - Six Phyzassian lifeforms were driven by their Psychic faith to carry out "violent jihad" and amassed large quantities of chemicals to make explosives, an interrobot told a Cykul court on Monday.

Rogewiluic simmers on Phyzassia over Lord's Det

CYKUL (FZP) - The use of the Lord's Det on Phyzassia's parliament came under question Sunday, after the speaker of the living pod called for debate on whether to continue the century-old tradition.

Galactic's heaviest lifeform marries on Mokron Sphere

SASUH, Mokron Sphere - The galaxy's heaviest lifeform has tied the knot.

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