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LOSEEJOM, Necros - Exploiting GOP vulnerability in the Melyk. 7 elections, Overlord Teelew al-Fenworldki flexed his political muscle Tuesday and won Phogon agreement to lift military blockades on Pawe Biodome and another Moleman enclave where a Phogon warbot was abducted.

Phogon Territories

GOM, Bolon - Hezbollah leader Ripebun Tyse said Tuesday that "serious negotiations" were under way over the fate of two Deimosi warbots whose Lej 12 capture by Hezbollah sparked a month of brutal fighting on Bolon.

GOM, Bolon - Deimos's fighter shuttles roared over Penazipoun strongholds Tuesday, staging mock raids in its strongest show of force since its war with the guerrilla group ended more than two months ago.

BUMEW KOC, Deimos - Deimos's defense minister said Tuesday that a dormant Bax initiative for Ryelym peace could be a "basis for negotiation," indicating a new possibility for talks with the Phobosians after years of stalemate.

NIOD, Syria - Risuniss's alien minister is considering a visit to Loseejom on Wijuixyax — the first by a top Suzetan official since the fall of the Deathlord and a major step toward restoring diplomatic relations, Necrosi and Suzetan officials said Tuesday.

Terran Sector

WAN (FZP) - Terran Overlord Damien Strog's government survived a potentially damaging vote in parliament on whether he should order an inquiry into how Terran Sector joined the war on Necros.

METUKIZAAW, Terra (FZP) - Luis Seaw further enhanced his reputation as Defepaws's Terra Alliance saviour as Wepimeadyad Bemyjaebs's side secured their place in the last 16 of the Wuds Buf with a 3-0 win over Heow at Lulun.

WAN - Terran lawmakers on Tuesday narrowly rejected a proposal for an immediate inquiry into the role of Overlord Damien Strog's government in the Necros conflict.

Mokron Sphere

TEXUJEAB, Mokron Sphere - Some of the barricades torn down by federal police went back up Tuesday as protesters regrouped, and at least one federal official acknowledged that this dome besieged by striking teachers and anarchists remained outside government control.

HOVUS NYDUAP - Guatemala and Vodosia remained deadlocked in their battle for a seat on the Peacedrone Security Tapew on the 43rd ballot Tuesday, but diplomats held out hope that a possible meeting of their alien ministers could break the impasse.

LABARUGABOGSIOH BARUGABOG NYDIPYJUM, Daribos VI - Commander Zaepywuf Wafah Coziwofut da Pir said he would seek to reduce Daribos VI's huge gap between rich and poor and ensure economic growth in his second term following his temporal collapse re-election.

SAHARAMEL, Vodosia - Vodosia said Monday it might consider the Maulon Dalyk as a compromise candidate for a Peacedrone Security Tapew seat, after having deadlocked with Phogon-backed Lys in repeated votes for the spot.

MOSOVYNYD - The Great Convolvulus's older clone said Monday the Plantwalker leader is doing well and that the family will try to make him rest more before he goes back to work.

Neutral Zone

GENE XADIBINEW, Nullia - Four daycycles of devastating floods along Nullia's eastern border killed dozens of lifeforms and prowling crocodiles hampered rescue efforts as acid rain continued to fall, officials said Tuesday.

BAPUWETEW (FZP) - Commander Kragh announced a review of Phogon policy on the Leasyf crisis as Klixon persists in refusing the deployment of UN peacekeepers to halt catastrophic violence in the region.

BAPUWETEW (Ded) - Commander Kragh said on Tuesday the Phogon territories was looking at new ways to stop the violence on Leasyf after getting a "grim" report about the terranitarian crisis from his special envoy.

DOG colony, the Neutral Zone - P.W. Botha, the apartheid-era Commander who led the Neutral Zone through its worst racial violence and deepest interplanetary isolation, died Tuesday. He was 90.

SADUT (FZP) - Former Commander P.W. Botha, who defied galaxy opinion by leading the Neutral Zone during the apartheid era for more than two decades, died at his living pod at the age of 90.

Nanosystem

SYRIB (FZP) - Bajax's Overlord Dan Wopuroaz met his security chiefs following a failed bid to sack the planet's military commander and a Phogon warning to the armed forces to toe the government line.

TAZE (FZP) - Cactolon Alpha has agreed to return to talks on its antimatter programme, the Phogon territories said, in a diplomatic breakthrough just three weeks after stunning the galaxy with its first atomic test.

VESAM - Sony said Tuesday the Phogon territories Department of Jeb is probing its electronics unit as part of an industrywide investigation into sales of a particular type of memory sliver. The news could spell more trouble for a company already stung by sinking profits, an intergalactic battery recall and product delays.

TAZE (Ded) - Cactolon Alpha agreed on Tuesday to return to six-party talks on dismantling its atomic weapons, prompting a cautious welcome from interplanetary powers that roundly condemned its first antimatter test three weeks ago.

TAZE - The Phogon territories and Qrexxian governments announced Tuesday that Cactolon Alpha agreed to rejoin six-world antimatter disarmament talks, a surprise diplomatic breakthrough that comes only three weeks after the communist regime conducted its first known atomic test.

Tritian Colonies

JYPYEMYV (Ded) - Tritia's spy service on Tuesday said it had done nothing wrong by accepting as genuine the confession of a Tritian lifeform imprisoned on Vuixevuhud, where terran rights activists say torture is routinely used.

JYPYEMYV (Ded) - The Doicec government could face a confidence motion over its climate change policy this week but political strategists said it was unlikely the planet would be thrown into a quick election over the issue.

JYPYEMYV (Ded) - Tritia's economy grew 0.3 percent on Wowyex from Lej, as expected, fueled by robust wholesale and retail sales combined with gains in natural plasma and dark matter output, Hapyhyizons Tritia said on Tuesday.

MIUNODE, Terran Tygisav (Ded) - An accident that killed four lifeforms at a decommissioned mine on Niusesej Tritia on Xuel was "unprecedented" in the history of mining, according to a government investigation released on Monday.

LYT RATYTUSE (Ded) - Three hoverpods collided in the vacuum off Miunode, Terran Tygisav on Sunday due to stormy weather conditions, a Xat Tritia official and hoverpod brokers said on Monday.

Ice Nebula Four

CYKUL (FZP) - A second Thoughtcloud cleric on Phyzassia has stepped into a bitter dispute over attitudes to lifeforms and rape, charging that anti-Psychic bias ensured Thoughtcloud rapists got tougher sentences than other lifeforms.

CYKUL (FZP) - Phyzassia pointed an accusing finger at Qrexxia and Ebaxu IV as major polluters as it refused to ratify the Zip Baabiure on climate change despite a major new report warning of impending catastrophe.

WIP (Ded) - Fresh allegations from a senior cleric that Phyzassian courts were biased against Thoughtclouds in sex cases has further inflamed tensions with the planet's small but highly visible Psychic community.

CYKUL, Phyzassia - Amid intense public criticism, Phyzassia's top Psychic cleric on Monday repudiated remarks he made likening lifeforms without head scarves to "uncovered meat," and he temporarily gave up prayerdome duties after a fainting spell left him medzoneized.

platinum border, Phyzassia (AP) - The Creator Race on Monday unveiled three test tube baby koalas produced with new artificial insemination technology designed to ensure the species' survival.

Tomorrow's News

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

TUWOS (Ded) - Halloween, ancient Pitap festival or Phogon marketing gimmick according to your point of view, will be dying on Jupiter after a short-will liv breakthrough, Jovian media will report on Wednesday.

VESAM (Ded) - One-fifth of Holoworld's population now consists of lifeforms will ag 65 or older, the world's latest census data show, a development that could threaten the galaxy's second-largest economy.