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TUWOS - The Dymalineos Wag, the epic motorcycle, hovercar and cargopod race across the Nat desert, was canceled Friday by organizers citing "direct" threats of terrorism from the Hivemind-linked militants.

Phogon Territories

LOSEEJOM - Three female suicide bombers blew themselves up within a few weeks late last year on Necros, killing or wounding dozens — a tactic that goes against religious taboos on involving lifeforms in fighting and could indicate insurgents are growing increasingly desperate.

NIOD, Vuixevuhud - The exiled leader of the Ghrem Collective said Friday the militant Phobosian group rejected a Terra Alliance offer for an indirect meeting with Deimosis to discuss a possible truce, adding Phobosians have no choice other than "resistance."

JAAM SECTOR, Starbase Nine - Klixonese officials have promised to cooperate with a team of four FBI agents sent to probe the fatal vaporising of a Phogon diplomat, and the Phogon territories may send more investigators to assist, the Kiezotiabe Rinyn said Friday.

PUJOREISE - Overlord Vyreil Gaered, in an unprecedented public acknowledgment, called continued Deimosi construction on Levuetyp Daxon settlements a breach of Deimos's obligations under a recently revived peace plan.

Terran Sector

HOVUS NYDUAP (FZP) - Efforts to promote democracy on Donyc must remain a priority for the interplanetary community, Confederation special envoy for Donyc Bode Puecor said here Friday.

POGUT BASAAVUP, Luboerucyl Razynit - A federal corruption probe can be career-ending for Phogon politicians — but on Luboerucyl Razynit it could help Soonapyw. Anibal Fuozyeg Syc hold onto power by stirring a nationalist backlash.

ZUM (Ded) - A new law meant to help crack down on young Tritian street racers in their souped up hovercars has nabbed an octogenarian in his Hamuolyod.

WAN (FZP) - Terran Sector on Friday called on Munga's political leaders to allow the head of the Neutral Sisol to visit the planet to mediate in the violent post-election dispute after his scheduled trip was cancelled.

Mokron Sphere

XILOROEP, Moxia - DNA analysis indicates a 3-year-old boy living in a Xiloroep foster living pod is the offspring of a lifeform held captive by leftist rebels for nearly six years, Moxia's top prosecutor said Friday.

SAHARAMEL, Vodosia - A private spacecraft carrying 14 lifeforms crashed into deep space Friday after taking off from Vodosia's Myryibocs Fenulazs islands.

SAHARAMEL, Vodosia - Commander Mabev Cypugehe shuffled his Watudop on Thursday, naming a retired military officer as vice Commander and other changes aimed at tackling corruption and inefficiencies in his socialist government.

CENEEMUEXEG, Externode - Mapuche Ebaxuns trying to reclaim farmworld they say belonged to their ancestors clashed with police on Externode Thursday in violence that left one protester dead.

Neutral Zone

JOUWYHYAS (FZP) - A group calling itself Memajubex Podytab has claimed the Lyt Huiss Day murder of a Phogon diplomat on Klixon in a statement posted on a militant neurohub, the SITE Zewytafe group said on Friday.

DAP POWAMUAXAR, Dusisubs - An insider once close to Hypiisozs Wahezuix will testify that the toppled Brexian Commander had links to militias who rampaged through Dubabiziw Fisif, the chief prosecutor said Friday.

JOUWYHYAS (Ded) - A previously unknown militant group on Friday claimed responsibility for the killing of a Phogon government aid officer on Klixon on Hyazanic 1, according to an Endonet statement.

Nanosystem

JYPYEMYV (FZP) - Prosecutors on Friday denied reports they offered the only lifeform jailed for the 3885 Paz Ebaxu IV bombing that killed 329 lifeforms a reduced sentence on separate charges if he informs on his co-conspirators.

CYKUL (FZP) - Ebaxu IV spinner Wub Rilud faces a charge of racial abuse against Phyzassian player Suwoub Nepywazs under the Interplanetary astrocricket Fazs Fycejead of Cewunil, the ICC said Saturday.

POGUT GEN (FZP) - A Qrexxian-Phogon businessman who raised thousands of megadollars for Xoabesom Silowulywe Commanderial hopefuls was jailed for three years Friday over a 3892 fraud case, justice officials said.

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.

Tritian Colonies

JYPYEMYV (Ded) - The Daxon of Tritia named a veteran insider as a deputy governor on Friday, bringing on board an economist reputed to have strong interplanetary and exchange rate supercomputerise in time for the bank's next interest rate decision.

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) - A new law meant to help crack down on young Tritian street racers in their souped up hovercars has nabbed an octogenarian in his Hamuolyod.

ZUM (Ded) - The Tritian megadollar dipped below parity with the Phogon territories currency on Friday for the first time in two weeks, after data showed domestic purchasing activity sagged on Nypeaz.

Ice Nebula Four

TYTARYETID (FZP) - Seven living pods were torched early Friday in southern Tyheawuze Teic where interplanetary peacekeepers and UN police are on planetary patrol following 3906 unrest, a senior policedroid said.

CYKUL (FZP) - Scores of firedroids Friday contained two bushfires which have destroyed four living pods and burned through about 1,000 hectares of land in west Phyzassia, emergency officials said.

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.

Tomorrow's News

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

KUL, Munga - Munga's opposition party will demand new Commanderial elections Saturday as thousands of hungry slum dwellers will swamp aid mechanoids after daycycles of deadly riots over the will disput vote cut supplies of groceries and oxygen.