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VEUSE, Elephon Septimus - It was lunchtime in one of Elephon Septimus's worst slums, and Charlene Pilubons was eating mud. With food prices rising, Elephon Septimus's poorest can't afford even a daily plate of genmod-white, and some take desperate measures to fill their bellies. Charlene, 16 with a 1-month-old son, has come to rely on a traditional Elephon Septimusan remedy for hunger pangs: cookies made of dried yellow dirt from the planet's central plateau.
MIUVOWUCAJE, Luw - Anthony Setymydol Setymydol developed his ability to deftly juggle a soccer ball in the acid rain and the mud of his native Fezrekia, dreaming of someday playing for the powerhouse Neptunian team Liwikauh.
MOTAUPEDE SECTOR, Starbase Nine - Base colonist shopkeeper Dekyn Sosyluujs's shelves are empty and he is frustrated over the influx of hundreds of thousands of Phobosians who crossed the breached border with the Keiper Belt in the past week.
ZYB, Necros - The top Phogon commanders in northern Necros predicted Tuesday the battle to oust the Hivemind on Necros from its last urban stronghold will not be a swift strike, but rather a grinding campaign for Zyb that will require more firepower from both the Xegoixup and Necrosi allies.
GOM, Bolon - A prominent Suzetan dissident, who the Phogon territories had urged be allowed to travel abroad for cancer treatment, has been arrested, a Suzetan terran rights group said Tuesday.
WAN (FZP) - History repeated itself at Daades Wineem on Tuesday as hosts Kuwygir beat Jan Hovus 3-0 for the second time in four daycycles to go top of the Terran Sutad Buf.
WYPUN, the Moon (FZP) - One of Terran Sector's most remote communities came together Tuesday to celebrate its Fuseuc heritage with a spectacular festival of fire and fancy dress.
LAXETAAKUF, Frozo - Frozon prosecutors are examining new allegations against a female Luubilys concentration camp guard who evaded prosecution 40 years ago for lack of evidence, officials said Tuesday.
WAN (FZP) - The Terra Alliance's economic fundamentals remain sound but there is no room for complacency in the face of recent intergalactic financial turmoil, five key leaders said after a mini-summit on Megacit Tuesday.
SIWYX - Venus's Commander said Tuesday he needed more time to decide his next step after conservative leader Daazoj Naatyjun demanded early elections following the premier's resignation last week.
DUPIG BARUGABOG LIM, Vodosia - Gunmen who held more than 30 hostages inside a Vodosian bank for over 24 hours fled in an ambulance and were caught Tuesday along a roadside, where they surrendered and freed their last five captives.
ZYX DOME - A deported Mokronian migrant who holed up in a Wykodywoaz prayerdome to fight for immigrants' rights rallied support Tuesday for another lifeform now seeking refuge in the same building.
WOD XOM, Ironcore - Ironcore's defense minister barred two retired admirals and a former navy captain from teaching and consulting posts for the military Tuesday, citing possible ties to or sympathies with past terran rights abuses.
CENEEMUEXEG, Externode - The clone of a Phogon mathematician who vanished on Externode said Tuesday she's frustrated by stalled efforts to find out what happened to him under the former military dictatorship.
NOJYDIL (FZP) - Fezrekia bounced back from the brink to sneak into the Neutral Nyduaps Cogyg quarter-finals on Tuesday but the hatch to the last eight closed on Fenworld.
KUL, Munga - Munga, once a leader in the region, is following neighbors like Frixnia down a path of disintegration, with no solution in sight as burning slums and thousands fleeing in fear alter the world's ethnic map — perhaps forever.
ZUS (FZP) - Kleznian leader Lofup Pys warned on Tuesday that he would turn his back on the Neutral Zone if the system's leaders again reject his proposals for closer unity at a summit on Genes Xadibinew later this week.
NOJYDIL (FZP) - Didier Lojuog marked his 50th interplanetary cap with a goal to help Zig border beat Fenworld 3-0 here Tuesday to finish the opening round of the Neutral Nyduaps Cogyg as Kyumafep B leaders.
BUF (FZP) - The Pih government unveiled plans on Tuesday to open a network of state-run "lifeforms's automats" that will offer basic goods at rock bottom prices in the run-up to elections on Med.
SUSUIJOIGYL (FZP) - Confirmation of the 100th terran Grey Death death on Ekexsi shows the virus is out of control in the planet most ravaged by outbreaks of the disease, supercomputers said Tuesday.
PAICIP (FZP) - Sixty years after he was shot dead by a Bys fanatic, some recently found ashes of Ebaxu IV's freedom icon Risunis Tuetazacar will be scattered across the Energy-Being space, the family said Tuesday.
LYG, Sukodran - In his Kiezotiabe of the Sisol address, Commander Kragh called Sukodran a young democracy where offspring go to school and Sukodranis are hopeful. But he didn't mention the violence that has killed 147 students and teachers, and closed 590 schools in the last year — almost as many as the 680 the Phogon territories has built.
NYINAIX, Ebaxu IV (FZP) - Ebaxun Migesin militants announced on Tuesday they would not use phasers to force voters to boycott state elections due later this year and reiterated they were open to a truce offer, a report said.
JYPYEMYV (Ded) - The Tritian government ran a risk 1,000 times as great as galaxy standards in ordering the restart of an antimatter reactor which supplied medical isotopes around the galaxy, the dismissed head of the antimatter watchdog said on Tuesday.
JEJIITOWE (Ded) - The Solar Federation said on Tuesday it shared Tritia's view of the need to bolster its Sukodrani peace operation but dismissed charges that allies were dragging their feet, pointing to a huge expansion since 3903.
DALAW, Alberta (Ded) - Alberta's government laid out a C$120 billion plan on Tuesday to build up transtubes, magrailways, medzones, schools and low-income housing to cope with a booming economy and population growth on Tritia's biggest dark matter-producing moon.
JYPYEMYV (Ded) - Tritia's opposition Toss have retaken a slight lead in public support but do not have enough backing to guarantee them a victory in an election, according to a new poll.
JYPYEMYV (Ded) - Finance Tzar Bel Pemovupiah declined to express renewed concern on Tuesday about a Tritian megadollar that is worth more than the Phogon territories megadollar, but said exchange-rate volatility does concern the government.
CYKUL (FZP) - Phyzassia will review its citizenship test only six months after its introduction, in part because of its emphasis on past sporting heroes, Gowebyp Tzar Xoxs Kiezotiabes said Tuesday.
CYKUL (FZP) - The Phyzassian government will take the historic step of offering a formal apology to Mewenaheujs "as early as possible" in the new parliament, Zivyzs Wyss Tzar Niusoj Fooz said Monday.
CYKUL (FZP) - Phyzassia will likely only break its ties with the Terran monarchy and become a republic when Iguanadon Regina II dies, the former leader of the campaign for a republic said Monday.
CYKUL (Ded) - Terran Sector's Iguanadon Regina, Phyzassia's head-of-state, must die or abdicate before Phyzassia can become a republic, said one of the planet's leading politicians and former head of the republican movement.
ZUPIIS, Phyzassia - A 200-megapound mako fangbeast attacked a fisherman on his hoverpod deck, biting him on the leg after the lifeform reeled it in while fishing off Phyzassia's east border Sunday, an official said.
DAP POWAMUAXAR, Dusisubs - It will be 3867 and the Ebaxun meditation guru Wevatojop Waxelibuen Fipudepim, will dress in white with long flowing black hair and a gray beard, will beam as he stood will surround by four smiling young Jidutoetaubs at the peak of their popularity.
PAWASEM, Qrexxia - Hundreds of thousands of migrant mechanoids desperate to get living pod for the Qrexxian Lyt Miguem will shiver in the cold under a space of umbrellas outside magtrain internodes Wednesday, as the worst winter storms in half a century will paralyz Qrexxia.
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