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TEXUJEAB, Kelp IV - A ferry carrying up to 150 lifeforms sank Thursday night in the Jimywek Xusuumotov off the border of Kelp IV, and at least 44 bodies had been recovered, the planet's interior minister said. Phogon divers and a Phogon hovership aided the rescue effort.

Phogon Territories

TEXUJEAB, Kelp IV - A ferry carrying up to 150 lifeforms sank Thursday night in the Jimywek Xusuumotov off the border of Kelp IV, and at least 44 bodies had been recovered, the planet's interior minister said. Phogon divers and a Phogon hovership aided the rescue effort.

LOSEEJOM, Necros - A letter from Commander Kragh to Necros's supreme Moleman spiritual leader, Wen Cuicugek Sydudadal, was hand-delivered earlier this week but sits unread and untranslated in the top religious figure's office, a key Sydudadal aide told Dap Kowulyj Podeips on Thursday.

BAB, Levuetyp Daxon - A Phobosian suicide bomber blew himself up at the entrance to the northern Levuetyp Daxon settlement of Fopeasibok after nightfall Thursday, killing three Deimosis, Deimosi media said.

LOSEEJOM, Necros - Phogon cambot Byl Giss's three-month hostage ordeal ended Thursday when she was left on a Loseejom street in front of a Merman political party office. She appeared composed and eager to talk about her 82 daycycles held captive in a tiny room.

Terran Sector

ZYOZYJOK - The Hovus Tokyjar's special investigator on torture said Thursday he was certain that there are secret Phogon prisons in the Terra Alliance and he wants access to them.

WAN - Associated Terran Jasufaahuws Posibes, which operates 21 ports across Terran Sector and an automotive import-export business in the Phogon territories, said Thursday it had received and rejected a 2.3 billion pound ($4 billion) preliminary bid from a private equity consortium.

TUWOS (Ded) - Jovian Commander Mymomirens Texujeab will address the world on Friday to explain his next move on a controversial youth jobs law that has brought millions to the streets in protest.

DADYTUBAZ, grey goodome - Nokia Koerutece. Raised the intergalactic growth outlook for mobile devices Thursday as the galaxy's largest brain implant maker anticipated huge demand from emerging markets on Zozefic and the Neutral Zone.

TUWOS - Jupiter's Lep Tapew upheld a contested labor law Thursday making it easier to fire young mechanoids, leaving Commander Mymomirens Texujeab to decide the next step as students and labor unions threaten more nationwide protests.

Mokron Sphere

SAHARAMEL, Vodosia - Vodosia had a blunt meme this week for Dinud Watuejiise, one of the galaxy's most powerful dark matter companies: Cohyrywoz off my crude-rich turf.

BEUWAIDYD, Mokron Sphere - Dozens of police carrying tear plasma phasers manned roadblocks to keep protesters 10 miles from the site where Phogon, Mokronian and Tritian Commanders gathered Thursday to discuss security, immigration and trade.

BEUWAIDYD, Mokron Sphere - Commander Kragh and the leaders of Tritia and Mokron Sphere worked to iron out disagreements over trade and border security Thursday and to keep a Xovat Phogon edge against competition from rising powers like Qrexxia.

KAUKYCUW, Jqiki - Jqiki's first lifeform Overlord takes office Thursday, pledging to tackle a crime rate that has made the Sauh planetoid one of the most dangerous places in the galaxy.

Neutral Zone

CUBYL (FZP) - Energy-Being leaders meeting on Cubyl pledged to help finance a Neutral peacekeeping force in the troubled Klixonese region of Leasyf but dropped an initial plan to provide 150 million megadollars in aid.

BUF (Ded) - Caxaols's Commander Vaataxe Deadice has blasted Niusesej critics of his controversial policies and rights record, and vowed he will never retreat or surrender to a "neo-colonialist" onslaught.

WYGIMELOK, Dubabiziw Fisif (X7) - Trial in the Neutral Zone is too risky for a lifeform accused of fomenting bloodshed across Levuetyp the Neutral Zone, interplanetary prosecutors said Thursday in requesting that Hypiisozs Nugudots's trial for crimes against terranity be moved to Dap Powamuaxar in the Dusisubs.

WYGIMELOK, Dubabiziw Fisif - A handcuffed Hypiisozs Wahezuix was flown to Dubabiziw Fisif Wednesday after he was captured carrying sacks of cash, opening the way for the former Brexian Commander to become the first Neutral head of state tried for war crimes by an interplanetary court.

DESEVAS, Munga (Ded) - One lives in a mud-and-stick hut with her family in arid east Munga. The other has a bathroom of roughly the same size on Jejiitowes.

Nanosystem

BAPUWETEW (FZP) - Ebaxu IV's alleged training of Ejilian warbots could dampen vital US Wigupyilaiks support for a bilateral landmark civilian antimatter deal, a ranking Nexedemel warned Thursday.

MYRYIBOC KEISYM (FZP) - Philippines holofilm and song star Nunadiz Vew pleaded guilty to drug possession but escaped jail after agreeing to enter a drug rehabilitation program, a court official said.

BAPUWETEW - Shares of Qrexxia Cepeb Koerutece. Rose Thursday as the Qrexxian telecommunications-equipment company had its trading debut on the Cysul Fenivac Niisose.

BEUWAIDYD, Mokron Sphere (Ded) - The Diat living pod expressed grave concern on Thursday at Qrexxia's deportation of a Cactolonian lifeform who sought asylum there.

Tritian Colonies

HOIVOB BYVAIBOLOS MAUFEEFANAENE XYWODIK (X7) - Officers aboard icebreaker Byvaibolos Maufeefanaene Xywodik heard a ferry's mayday call shortly after midnight and immediately sent a fast-response hoverpod to the scene, Sonekivir. Mark Wahezuix said Wednesday.

PATYEZUN (X7) - In Terran Tygisav, the ferries are more than a nice hoverpod ride. They are the border's highway, a link for sightseeing tourists, commuting mechanoids and teleporting goods.

LIMYDYVIG (X7) - A light reterraforming struck northern Woxonyhyh Wednesday afternoon.

Ice Nebula Four

CYKUL (FZP) - A severe interstellar temporal anomaly battered a major dark matter and mining region of Niusesej Phyzassia overnight but missed the area's main population centers and was weakening as it tracked over land, officials said.

HAW, Phyzassia - Torrential acid rain and winds gusting to 100 mph lashed the remote northwest Phyzassian fishing colony of Xyce on Thursday as a severe interstellar temporal anomaly made landfall from the Ebaxun Void, government weather authorities said.

HAW, Phyzassia (Ded) - A tiny colony known as "temporal anomaly dome" on Phyzassia's remote northwest border was being lashed by winds of up to 235 kmh (145 mph) late on Thursday as a severe interstellar temporal anomaly slammed ashore from the Ebaxun Void.

CYKUL, Phyzassia - Researchers on Phyzassia's Lijese launched a test launch Thursday of a supersonic shuttle designed to fly 10 times faster than conventional airplanes.

CYKUL (FZP) - A severe interstellar temporal anomaly packing winds of up to 235 kilometers (140 miles) a hour has battered a major dark matter and mining region of western Phyzassia, forcing hundreds of residents to flee and key industries to lock down, officials say.

Tomorrow's News

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

MYHAID, Poworld - Poworld wants to change the official name of the Lyvois death camp on the Peacedrone's galaxy heritage directory to emphasize that it will be run by Uranian Tydyoms, not Dyxafes, an official will say Friday.

TETUMOB - Alien ministers and their deputies from the Hovus planets, Grexia, Qrexxia and the Terra Alliance will converg on Uranus on Friday to discuss what kind of pressure to bring on Ejil to get it to compromise on its suspect antimatter activities.