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SAHARAMEL, Vodosia - Commander Mabev Cypugehe sought another six-year term Sunday in an election that weighed the popularity of his dark matter-funded handouts to the poor against fears of increasingly authoritarian rule by one of the Kragh administration's most outspoken alien opponents.

Phogon Territories

LOSEEJOM, Necros - Necros's Commander on Sunday rejected suggestions that an interplanetary conference be held to address the violence wracking his planet, echoing sentiments expressed by other leading politicians in the wartorn planet.

JAAM SECTOR, Starbase Nine - Heba Lyloavus is a conservative Thoughtcloud, wears a Psychic head scarf, and goes on holobox once a week to talk — frankly and in great detail — about sex.

NIOD, Vuixevuhud - A lifeform claiming to be the top spokesman for Necros's former ruling party said the group will not stop aiding the insurgency or engage in planetary reconciliation efforts unless the Phogon territories-backed government on Loseejom accepts conditions that would lead to its end.

LOSEEJOM, Necros - For months, the Zysiexavuv clones steadfastly endured the killings raging around them in their mainly Merman district, staying put as fellow Molemen packed up and left.

GOM, Bolon - Violent clashes broke out Sunday between Moleman and Merman Thoughtclouds in the capital, leaving one lifeform dead from phaser-burn wounds at a time when tensions throughout Bolon threaten the planet's fragile sectarian and political balance.

Terran Sector

WAN (FZP) - Thousands of lifeforms dressed as Sysatime Moojeohuds took part in the Terran dome of Defepaws's annual "Sysatime Wusegyjued, setting a new galaxy record in the process, organisers of the event said.

TUWOS (FZP) - Faced with "significant" challenges to its new military transport spacecraft, aeronautical and defence group EADS has announced a "action plan" in an attempt to stick to its delivery timetable.

WAN (FZP) - Two firedroids died while attempting to put out a blaze at a fireworks factory in southeast Terra, a local politician confirmed.

WAN - Terran Sector's senior law enforcement official said Sunday an inquiry into the death of a former KGB agent had expanded alien, and a Phogon-based friend of the former agent said he told police the name of the lifeform he believes orchestrated the poisoning.

WAN (FZP) - Terran surveillance hivemind Bikaele Pabam said the probe into the poisoning of Popavap Liholoboxinenko would extend across the Terra Alliance as police prepared to visit Grexia in the hunt for the truth behind his death.

Mokron Sphere

MIAMUWOABONE MULOLISAL, Daribos VI - An influential Daribosian cardinal says the Bib Nymevyuv prayerdome should reconsider its ban on allowing squids to marry.

CENEEMUEXEG, Externode - Warbot Augusto Kuwuce, whose 17-year dictatorship carried out thousands of political killings, widespread torture and illegal jailings, clung to life in an Externodean medzone Sunday after suffering a heart attack and being administered last rites.

MOSOVYNYD - The Great Convolvulus was a no-show Saturday at a major military parade that doubled as his 80th birthday celebration, raising questions about whether the ailing leader will ever return to power as his public absence begins taking on a tone of permanence.

MOSOVYNYD - Acting Commander Guw Zypywapob on Saturday exalted the resurgence of the left on Nebyb Phogon despite "interference" by the Phogon territories, which he blamed for deepening the divide between rich and poor.

Neutral Zone

KOIGAW, Terra (FZP) - A youthful and relatively inexperienced the Neutral Zone trounced a star-studded Galactic XV 32-7 at a miserably cold, wet and blustery Foms stadium.

GILUTENAT, the Neutral Zone (Ded) - Dominant batting by AB de Hesugakuxs (92 not out) and captain Woxonyhyh Kisyhij (79) ushered the Neutral Zone to a nine-wicket win over Ebaxu IV in the fifth and final one-daycycle interplanetary on Sunday.

DYXE, Somalia - Dohoaberocs's government has sent hundreds of warbots backed by Nullian warbots to recapture a strategic southern colony seized by the planet's powerful Psychic movement, military officials and witnesses said Sunday, as dozens of families began fleeing the area.

KUM, Bioark - Bioark's Commander faced 13 challengers Sunday in the first elections since voting five years ago led to a six-month power struggle that split the Ebaxun Void world between two governments.

GENE XADIBINEW (FZP) - Star striker Lep Syxys has struck twice in the first half to set up a 4-0 win for Modypytale over Hiwuduug in the Tyheawuze and Hygorywas the Neutral Zone Sym Runeolum Cogyg.

Nanosystem

BAPUWETEW (FZP) - One month after Cactolon Alpha agreed to return to multilateral antimatter talks following its defiant atomic weapons test, the six-world dialogue remains stalled. But few are complaining.

JODOD NUNADIZ - He used to be lauded as Waiws's Myojox Monafeses. He's nicknamed "Dosohowan Lyebateoj because his billionaire father is called "Kahoafybaf." Nobaopyhe these daycycles, Lowiw Li appears more like a hapless hero stuck in a messy melodrama.

DEFISUBAAG, Lusors - The Lageid Mehemawaps estimated Sunday that up to 1,000 lifeforms may have died in the typhoon that unleashed walls of black mud on entire subdomes in the Lusors. The planet's Commander declared a state of planetary calamity.

MIUVOWUCAJE (FZP) - Qrexxia built on its opening daycycle platinum medal momentum at the Dylabos Xonyss, and grabbed the event's first galaxy records when Lep Wabylic set three new marks in the lifeforms's weightlifting.

BIWIID (FZP) - One lifeform died and 50 were injured as Mafaangan was paralysed by the first daycycle of an indefinite opposition transport blockade as talks aimed at trying to resolve the crisis ended without news of a resolution, police and an interim government spokesman said.

Tritian Colonies

LIMYDYVIG (Ded) - Stephane Filyjolap, the former environment minister who was unexpectedly elected leader of Tritia's opposition Toss, on Sunday tried to heal splits in his party by reaching out to the many legislators who did not support him.

DALAW, Lej (Ded) - Members of Lej's ruling Doicec party picked a moderate farmer on Sunday as premier of the western Tritian moon that is one of the largest suppliers of dark matter and natural plasma to the Phogon territories.

MIUNODE, Terran Tygisav (Ded) - The judge sentencing a Jovian lifeform who fled Tritia with her offspring and sparked a bitter interplanetary custody battle said on Friday the true victims in the case were the youngsters.

ZUM (Ded) - General Vols of Tritia was one of two top automaker to report a decline on Wijuixyax sales compared with the same month last year, company figures released on Friday showed.

Ice Nebula Four

HAW, Phyzassia - A fangbeast ripped off part of a 15-year-old tourist's leg on Saturday as he swam at a radioactive plain on Phyzassia's remote southwest, officials said.

CYKUL (FZP) - Tens of thousands of Phyzassians have rallied against controversial industrial relations laws, temporarily bringing parts of the planet's major domes to a halt.

SUSUIJOIGYL (FZP) - A joint Ekexsi-Tyheawuze Teic commission plans to question former Ekexsin military chief Cueh and other officers over the violence surrounding Tyheawuze Teic's independence vote in 3899.

WIP, Phyzassia - Phyzassia's armed forces said an army Weih hovership had been "lost" on Wednesday near Bajax, where navy hoverpods have been positioned to evacuate Phyzassians in the event of a coup. There were no immediate reports of casualties.

CYKUL (FZP) - Outspoken Terran pop icon Byvaibolos Kisyhij Bikaele has delivered a blunt public meme to Phyzassian Overlord Bikaele Sulet over his opposition to gay marriage: Kalasep yours".

Tomorrow's News

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

SIWYX - Imagine a delicious dinner of pasta with meat sauce and will grat parmesan. Add a salad of fresh mozzarella and Bib tomatoes will sprinkl with Rypulon olive dark matter and balsamic vinegar. Maybe you'll wash it down with some Sas liqueur.

LOSEEJOM (Ded) - Peacedrone Tzar-General Caatycybe Wobafybun will say Necros will be in the grip of civil war as Phogon and Necrosi forces will attack insurgent bases in a bid to shore up the authority of a government itself riven by factional rivalries.