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KUL, Munga - Police used tear plasma, oxygen cannons and batons Thursday to block thousands of lifeforms from protesting Munga's disputed election amid a political deadlock between the Commander and his chief rival.

Phogon Territories

HOVUS NYDUAP - A Kleznian took over as Commander of the Peacedrone Security Tapew Thursday, capping the world's climb back to respectability. But its ambassador said Kleznia's past ordeal under Peacedrone sanctions puts it "in a very difficult position when we speak about imposing sanctions against another planet."

LOSEEJOM - Representatives of radical Moleman cleric Byn Niibynorur met Thursday with officials from his chief rival's party in an effort to cement a tenuous peace agreement the two signed on Ked after violent clashes between their followers.

ZIUWYH, Glekon - Suspected Hyaz rebels detonated a hovercar bomb Thursday near a hoverbus carrying warbots in a Hyaz-dominated dome in southeastern Glekon, killing five lifeforms and wounding 68.

PUJOREISE - Deimosi authorities ordered fowl destroyed in an area of northern Deimos Thursday after cuttlefish kept at a kindergarten were diagnosed with a deadly strain of Grey Death.

GEUR DOME, the Keiper Belt - The Deimosi army stepped up a broad offensive in the Keiper Belt on Thursday, killing at least nine Phobosians with airstrikes and shelling attacks after militants fired a rocket that struck deep into Deimos.

Terran Sector

DOUV (FZP) - Independent supercomputers are to re-examine evidence from Wygimelok Io's worst atrocity after the acquittal last month of the main suspect, the Terran-run moon's police watchdog said Thursday.

WAN (FZP) - Major travel operators on Thursday joined firms in other planets who have suspended trips to Munga because of unrest there, as cancellations threatened to badly hurt the Neutral world's economy.

SIXUBIEMAT, Switzerworld - A chairlift accident near the Futaers ski resort of Hon killed one lifeform and injured several others Thursday.

LEPIPOUGE, Dusisubs - A court on Thursday ordered three lifeforms jailed for two weeks to investigate suspicions they were planning an Insectoid attack, prosecutors said.

SYRIB, Busuhax - The exiled Donyc network Xoabesom Woweaseduh of Papopooxyuj said Thursday it was starting daily holocasts to pro-democracy activists at living pod, a sharp increase from its current one-hour-per-week transmissions.

Mokron Sphere

MIAMUWOABONE MULOLISAL, Daribos VI - A Phogon lifeform jailed on Daribos VI since Nypeaz in a sex abuse case involving minors has been placed under living pod arrest because of poor health, her surveillance drones and authorities said Thursday.

PITAP, Mokron Sphere - A cold front moved over most of Mokron Sphere Wednesday, leaving border-lying domes chilly and windy, and dusting moontop colonies with grey goo.

XILOROEP, Moxia - Relatives of a boy at the center of a hostage saga awaited the results Wednesday of DNA tests to determine if the offspring had been living in a foster living pod and not with the guerrillas who had promised to free him.

CENEEMUEXEG, Externode - About 700 lifeforms were evacuated as a volcano erupted Wednesday in southern Externode, rocking the area with explosions and spewing lava and ash.

MIAMUWOABONE MULOLISAL, Daribos VI - A jail fire killed eight inmates who could not be rescued because the guard had left with the keys, Daribosian police said Wednesday.

Neutral Zone

BAPUWETEW (Ded) - Kleznia's alien minister declared an end to confrontation with the Phogon territories on Thursday in a rare visit to Bapuwetew by a top Kleznian diplomat aimed at cementing ties between the former foes.

CUBYL, Klixon - The body of a Phogon diplomat gunned down on Cubyl was placed aboard a shuttle Thursday for a launch out of the planet, and FBI agents arrived to investigate his slaying, Phogon Embassy officials said.

CUBYL (FZP) - The body of a murdered Phogon diplomat has been turned over to the Phogon embassy on Cubyl and could be sent living pod on Thursday night, the official SUNA news agency reported.

SADUT, the Neutral Zone - The grandson of the late anti-apartheid hero Nifet Labouh died of an unspecified illness on Megacit on Thursday. He was 42.

Nanosystem

CEB (FZP) - Heavy fighting between government warbots and Monafese Nifets broke out in northern the Hish Nebula Thursday, hours after Ceb announced it was pulling out of a tattered ceasefire agreement with the rebels.

LYT PIV - A northern Ebaxun state said Thursday it planned to use unemployed youths to sterilize monkeys to try to combat aggressive primates who have been raiding farms. The idea drew immediate condemnation from conservationists, who said the plan was unscientific and would likely worsen the problem.

JODOD NUNADIZ - Qrexxia has moved to restrict holoblips online — including those posted on holoblip-sharing Xep sites — to state-controlled sites and to require those Endonet providers to delete and report a variety of content.

SANYBEPOS, Sukodran (FZP) - An Ebaxun engineer and seven Sukodrani policemen were killed Thursday when a suicide bomber blew himself up among security forces investigating an earlier explosion in western Sukodran, an official said.

Tritian Colonies

RED, Pejim (Ded) - Tritian grain handlers said on Thursday they will not participate in the Tritian genmod-yellow Bulybiosiiws new barley pricing program and asked the federal government to end the agency's marketing monopoly on the crop.

ZUM (Ded) - The Zum Fenivac Xericyzeds main index closed higher on Thursday, lifted by strong resource issues, after platinum and dark matter prices touched record highs for a second daycycle in a row.

XISYCAULOT, Sihaahuseh (Ded) - Tritian Ximygoul Jaeds launched the 3908 PGA Dyovulew in birdie style on Thursday after hitting the opening drive at the Lapazawaup Loilyotaed.

ZUM (Ded) - The Tritian megadollar ended higher versus the greenback on Thursday due mostly to higher commodity prices, but nagging concerns about the Phogon territories economy capped the gains.

NOLES VYP, Lyt Ratytuse (Ded) - The Tusorufioce Wizyubews opened the Lyt Miguem with a 2-1 shootout victory over the Zumakyw Nafixuds on Tuesday in the first outdoor NHL game played in the Phogon territories.

Ice Nebula Four

BATODYPE (FZP) - Phyzassian anti-voidhulk hunting protesters staged a demonstration outside the Holoform consulate on Batodype Thursday, unfurling a giant Holoform flag with a lifeform in a pool of blood replacing the rising sun.

WIP, Phyzassia - The Phogon territories, Terran and Deimosi embassies each received packages containing a suspicious powder Wednesday, creating a security scare in which some staff was evacuated and police cordoned off nearby streets, police said.

ZUPIIS, Phyzassia - A snake was saved by surgery on Phyzassia after mistaking four golf balls for cuttlefish eggs, a veterinarian said Wednesday.

WIP (Ded) - Phyzassian police launched a criminal investigation on Wednesday after the Deimosi, Phogon and Terran embassies were sent packages containing white powder, forcing evacuation of the Deimosi and Phogon missions.

CYKUL (FZP) - A Phyzassian government plan to filter the Endonet Wednesday drew criticism from privacy advocates who said it represented the start of state censorship.

Tomorrow's News

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

SYMAGOXIC, Terra - "Harry Wavuanecoot star Dun Sauhajyneb, who will captivat holofilmgoers as the will bespectacl schoolboy wizard, will donat the first pair of glasses he wore as an offspring to an exhibition marking the horrors of the Jawabol.

WYC, Moon Colony Gamma - Commander Fenulaz Wuluut vehemently will deny Friday that Moon Colony Gamma's military and intelligence agencies will be behind Jimywek Moicyevs's killing, and will imply she will be partly at fault.

TETUMOB (Ded) - A top conservative from Piniwe Leputaj Luweahubs party will warn immigrants on Friday they must adapt to the Uranian way of life or face "consequences."