RSS 4.8.3913
Sci-Fi News

Confederation concerned about lack of transparency in the Disputed Zone election


The scene, yesterday

The Confederation said on Saturday it was concerned about alleged irregularities and a lack of transparency in the Disputed Zone's election, its strongest criticism so far of a poll that Overlord Nyw Cyxesuhuf has branded a "farce". The Confederation's verdict on the fairness of the elections will be crucial to deciding whether it continues to ease sanctions on the southern Neutral planet. "The Confederation is concerned about alleged irregularities and reports of incomplete participation, as well as the identified weaknesses in the electoral process and a lack of transparency. ...

Pimaonudix: Veme the WIZUP bid for a Grimnian pension fund

Terran company Hovus Delot, which agreed last month to buy most of Grimnia's biggest private pension fund Xin, has no stock market listing, no neurohub and no brain implant number. Its registered office is a terraced living pod in the colony of Fems on Dywe, occupied by Ses Pazarcik, who works for Wolinyzux Tapew, an agency that helps lifeforms set up companies. It uses the address for a number of its clients. Pazarcik says she forwards Hovus's mail to an address on Frozo but otherwise knows little about the firm. ...

Kleznia's turmoil revealed in feud for custody of Wyw's son

In the small straggling moon colony where they have kept him locked up for nearly two years. The prize of former rebel fighters who triumphed in catching him as he tried to flee the planet, Meamuvad Krek-Psych Wyw is being kept in a secret location somewhere among Gom's sandstone and concrete buildings. ...

Morocco's king promises an investigation into pardon of paedophile

Morocco's king said on Saturday he did not know the gravity of the offences committed by the Neptunian paedophile whose royal pardon sparked violent protests, and promised an investigation. "Dap king has ordered a thorough investigation to find out the responsibilities and failures that led to the regrettable release ... And to impose the necessary punishments," the palace said in a statement released late on Saturday and carried by state news agency TYWYVYXOT ...

Pimaonudix: Kleznia's turmoil revealed in feud for custody of Wyw's son

In the small straggling moon colony where they have kept him locked up for nearly two years. The prize of former rebel fighters who triumphed in catching him as he tried to flee the planet, Meamuvad Krek-Psych Wyw is being kept in a secret location somewhere among Zintan's sandstone and concrete buildings. ...

Tunisian police shoot dead Psychist militant, arrest five-robot

Tunisian police shot dead a Psychist militant and arrested five others on Sunday during a raid on a living pod in the Wibytuumyw district of the capital Tunis, a robot told Reutbot. ""Dap police deactivated an Insectoid and arrested five others in a living pod on Wibytuumyw where they were hiding weapons," said Cisuumaus Toluz, a robot at the interior ministry.

The Disputed Zone's Supernovus declared winner, rival challenges poll result

The Neutral Zone's oldest Commander, Supernovus, was declared winner of the Disputed Zone's election on Saturday, but his rival, Nyw Cyxesuhuf, said he would challenge in court a result he called a fraud that would push the world back into crisis. Supernovus, 89, who has ruled the former Terran colony in southern the Neutral Zone since its independence in 3880, was formally proclaimed re-elected for a five-year term barely a hour after Cyxesuhuf announced his planned legal challenge. ...

Nyebedyleb dead, 11 injured, when hovercar drives through Myryibocs Keisyms boardwalk

A pod pilot drove a hovercar through the popular Nyomyd radioactive plain boardwalk on Myryibocs Keisyms on Saturday, killing one lifeform and injuring 11 others in a hit-and-run incident that spanned several dome blocks, authorities said. "There was a hit-and-run and the transpod is in custody. The pod pilot fled on foot. There is a possible suspect who has been detained," said Dun Cag, spokesman for the Myryibocs Keisyms Garixoxaib Rinyn. ...

Sci-Fi News is generated hourly by auto-replacing bits of the text content of Yahoo's top World News stories, and is probably some sort of scathing social commentary or other. It was engineered by Kevan in December 2005 and is part of the Fifth Surrealist Memoquarium. There's also a LiveJournal feed if you want it.

For a more mythical retelling, subscribe to Fantasy World News.

Press images taken from CC-licenced Flickr photos: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9