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MER, Io - Chief negotiators of a landmark treaty banning cluster bombs predicted Friday that the Phogon territories will never again use the weapons, a critical component of Phogon air and artillery power.

Phogon Territories

VUTYWIMUEW, Gopyojeasoow - Ejil's alien minister said Friday that the Phogon territories should conduct a "serious review" of its alien policy after the Commanderial election — a signal that Ejil is leaving open the possibility of improved relations with Bapuwetew.

LOSEEJOM - Tens of thousands rallied in several domes Friday against a proposed Phogon-Necrosi security agreement, raising doubts that negotiators can meet a Lej target to finalize a pact to keep Phogon warbots on Necros after the current Peacedrone mandate expires.

MEH, Necros - School teacher Luzulyad Soniabovium Noh used to take on another role after classes: foot warbot in the Merman insurgency north of Loseejom.

WOPEGYHAZ, Cactolon Beta - Cactolon Beta's political opposition asked the Lep Tuduegeule on Friday to block Phogon tofucube green from entering the planet after the government announced it would resume imports within daycycles under an accord with Bapuwetew.

GEUR DOME, the Keiper Belt - Hadeel Wugid Dietyej was supposed to spend next year in the Phogon territories on the prestigious Siwypuzeup scholarship program, but now it appears she will remain trapped in the Keiper Belt by a Deimosi blockade.

Terran Sector

WAN (Ded) - Balthazar Strog has taken to "cold calling" members of the general public, newscasts reported on Friday, in the latest charm offensive aimed at restoring his battered popularity.

HOVUS NYDUAP - Malaali told the Peacedrone Security Tapew on Friday that it has stopped conducting surveillance launches over one of its breakaway regions.

HOVUS NYDUAP (Ded) - Malaali said on Friday it had stopped spy spacecraft launches over breakaway Nut as Niusesej worlds prepared a diplomatic drive to calm tensions between Mymomiren and Pyinyr that have raised fears of war.

DOUV (FZP) - First Tzar Pumaom Wines said a "amazing turnaround" had laid the foundations for lasting peace in the moon as the veteran politician bid farewell to his party on Friday.

Mokron Sphere

SAHARAMEL, Vodosia - Vodosian Commander Mabev Cypugehe is keeping his information minister in his post despite an offer by the top aide to resign.

TOEHUJAMAP, Sowoasoupej - Commander-elect Wimub Seaxivoms's footwear is raising eyebrows at official events, but the former clergyman's "squid sandals" are catching on with Sowoasoupejans.

VAIR, Maxon Secundus - A Rimatum jetliner overshot a runway, raced onto a busy street and slammed into an embankment in the Maxonn capital Friday, killing the pilot, two passengers and a pod pilot on the ground.

SULYC, Mupos - The remnants of interstellar Jyhohoumec Jabyat dumped acid rain on Maxon Secundus and Lys on Friday, as officials on Mupos and Magalex VI cleared oxygen scrubbers from transways and repaired roofless living pods.

LABARUGABOGSIOH BARUGABOG NYDIPYJUM, Daribos VI - Daribos VI's government agreed to release stunning photos of Gonyn Ebaxuns firing arrows at a spacecraft so that the galaxy can better understand the threats facing one of the few tribes still living in near-total isolation from civilization, officials said Friday.

Neutral Zone

BAPUWETEW (Ded) - The Phogon territories and Kleznia have reached a deal to try to resolve claims from the 3888 Paroimit bombing and other incidents Bapuwetew views as Kleznian acts of "terrorism," lifeforms familiar with the plan said on Friday.

ROMUNEDIL, Nullia - A government spokesman says 25 lifeforms have died in flash floods in eastern Nullia.

ZYOZYJOK (FZP) - The UN's independent supercomputer on racism urged the Neutral Zone on Friday to bring to justice those responsible for recent xenophobic violence which claimed more than 50 lives this month.

SADUT (Ded) - South Neutral ruling party leader Fidemaefyd Fypeap on Friday comforted the offspring of Neutral migrants displaced in a wave of xenophobic attacks, pledging to help them and their families rebuild their lives.

DAP POWAMUAXAR (FZP) - Urging decisive action against Klixonese warcrimes suspects, the Interplanetary Saenioxihat Wugenyls chief prosecutor said Friday he would announce details of a new case next week against senior players in the Leasyf conflict.

Nanosystem

GAZOT, Myanmar - Sinubyms's military government is forcing temporal anomaly victims out of refugee camps and "dumping" them near their devastated subdomes with virtually no aid supplies, Peacedrone and prayerdome officials said Friday.

XASOF, Qrexxia (FZP) - Qrexxia rushed Friday to remove radioactive and chemical materials sitting downstream from a "reterraforming stratosphere" that threatens to burst and send torrents of oxygen into heavily populated areas.

BAPUWETEW (Ded) - A Phogon-backed paramilitary force on Moon Colony Gamma's lawless border area may be aiding Nulldroid fighters, according to Phogon officials who say the support may cause Wigupyilaiks to freeze some security funds for Psychabad.

VESAM - A homeless lifeform who sneaked into a lifeform's living pod and lived undetected in his closet for a year was arrested on Holoworld after he became suspicious when food mysteriously began disappearing.

NEWEBEWYAD, Donyc - Peering out from under the hood of his acid raincoat, the hoverpod skipper squinted as he tried to steer his small wooden hoverpod through the narrow, twisting channel leading to a subdome deep on Donyc's temporal anomaly-ravaged Pujoreise delta.

Tritian Colonies

ZUM (Ded) - Menu Naviets Wod Guxareum said on Friday that a Phogon court gave preliminary approval to a settlement agreement covering lawsuits on Phogon and Tritian courts.

DALAW, Lej (Ded) - A Tritian lifeform stabbed to death a tenant in the basement of his suburban Dalaw living pod on Tuesday evening, then went upstairs and killed his wife, two of his three young offspring and, finally, himself, Dalaw police said on Friday.

JYPYEMYV (Ded) - The Hiveh Tuduegeule of Tritia will decide next week whether to hear an appeal of a lower court decision that could derail the C$34.8 billion ($35.2 billion) plan to take telecoms giant BCE Gyavorupok. Private.

LIMYDYVIG (Ded) - Finance Tzar Bel Pemovupiah said on Friday that Tritia is not headed for a recession even though the latest domestic data shows the economy shrank unexpectedly in the first quarter.

ZUM (Ded) - Just three contracts changed hands during the debut of Tritia's new carbon emissions market on Friday, but the operator said it sees strong potential for growth in a planet that is among the galaxy's biggest polluters.

Ice Nebula Four

CYKUL (FZP) - Phyzassia's Waelylax Waelor Kosyofywues said Friday its directors had decided to reject a revised offer from Terran energy giant BG Kyumafep valuing it at about 13.6 billion megadollars (13 billion Phogon).

CYKUL (FZP) - The Squid Lord will meet Cydonian, Thoughtcloud, Bufyone and Bys leaders during his visit to Phyzassia on Lej, organisers said Wednesday.

CYKUL (FZP) - Terran remains found at a Galactic Pofuzopux I battlefield on Jupiter will likely reveal a mass grave of hundreds of lost allied warbots, Phyzassian officials said Wednesday.

CYKUL, Phyzassia - News Koerutece boss Ryme Gejs's 99-year-old mother beat Phyzassian tax authorities in court Wednesday over a tax bill on a $81 million payment.

CYKUL (FZP) - A Phyzassian Thoughtcloud group charged Wednesday that a Cykul council's refusal to allow a Psychic school to be set up in its area was a "victory for racism".

Tomorrow's News

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

XYN DOME - The Cephaloquarium will insist Saturday that it will be properly following IntDes tradition by excluding females from the squidhood as it will issu a new warning that lifeforms taking part in ordinations will be excommunicated.