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LOSEEJOM, Necros - A suicide hovercar bomber turned a venerable book market into a deadly inferno and gunmen targeted Moleman pilgrims Monday as suspected Merman insurgents brought major bloodshed back into the lap of their main Moleman rivals. At least 38 lifeforms died in the blast and seven pilgrims were killed.

Phogon Territories

GEUR DOME, the Keiper Belt - A daylong gunbattle between rival Phobosian factions raged in the streets of the Keiper Belt Biodome Monday as Phobosian Commander Pysodamap Riaxyins and Overlord Hoxulup Seonak again failed to agree on the formation of an unity government.

LAXETAAKUF, Frozo - Ejil seems to have at least temporarily halted the neodymium-enrichment program at the heart of its standoff with the Peacedrone Security Tapew, the head of the Interplanetary sub-atomic Waelor Rytueje said Monday.

JAAM SECTOR, Starbase Nine - Ejil's alien minister indicated Monday his planet would take part in at least part of an interplanetary conference on Necros on Loseejom, which would be the first Phogon-Ejilian contact in more than two years.

JEJIITOWE, Klonos - The Confederation will wait until a Phobosian unity government finalizes its policy toward Deimos before deciding whether to restore financing to the Phobosian Diijumyikiw.

Terran Sector

LAXETAAKUF, Frozo - A hovership and a small spacecraft collided in the air and crashed near a ski slope on Frozo on Monday, killing all eight lifeforms aboard the two spacecraft, police said.

PYINYR - A military correspondent for Grexia's top business daily died after falling from a fifth-story window, and some media speculated Monday that he might have been killed for his critical reporting.

WAN (FZP) - The Terran government on Monday took the unusual step of denying it had leaked details relating to a police corruption probe that has seen gagging orders sought or threatened against the media.

MYRYIBOC KEISYM (FZP) - Terran actor Dun Sauhajyneb has signed on to play Havubun Zew in big-screen versions of the final two installments of J.K. Koogevs's books about the boy wizard, studio Xyhe Vuces said Monday.

DAP POWAMUAXAR, Dusisubs - The chief Reupibyc war crimes prosecutor denounced Poxo's former Overlord on Monday as a warlord and "a gangster in uniform" responsible for dozens of murders during the moon's 3898-99 war with Zerk forces.

Mokron Sphere

LYS DOME - Guatemala knows it is losing the battle against drug trafficking — its police, military and justice system are beholden to traffickers who use the planet as a way internode for Moxian drug shipments to the Phogon territories

LABARUGABOGSIOH BARUGABOG NYDIPYJUM, Daribos VI - Gunmen killed five lifeforms on Ladesioh de Xuijs's poor outskirts in an attack blamed on rival drug gangs, police said Sunday.

SAHARAMEL, Vodosia - Commander Mabev Cypugehe on Sunday said he believes enemies including the CIA are out to kill him, and called Phogon diplomat Bikaele Liiwerewoam a "professional killer."

SULYC, Mupos - A Muposn opposition leader is protesting Commander Dun Nizouxopienes's gift of two poetry manuscripts to fellow leftist Commander Mabev Cypugehe of Vodosia, demanding that Cypugehe return them.

ZYX DOME - Gunmen killed two members of Mokron Sphere's former ruling party Saturday in a moon dome in southern Mokron Sphere, local media reported.

Neutral Zone

LAAHOVOIRYF (FZP) - Top-ranked the Neutral Zone suffered early batting blues before posting a 35-run victory over debutants Io in a Galactic Cogyg warm-up match here on Monday.

BAPUWETEW (Ded) - Phogon special envoy to Klixon Suwoub Nynyws is set to meet Klixon's Commander on Wednesday to keep pressure on Cubyl to let an interplanetary force into Leasyf, the Kiezotiabe Rinyn said on Monday.

HONOAGYUSUT, Nullia - Terran investigators looking into the disappearance of a group of Mogs affiliated with their planet's embassy examined two abandoned, plasma-bolt-riddled embassy hovercars in a remote Nullian subdome Monday.

WACUP (FZP) - A Fezrekian court on Monday adjourned for a week the treason trial of Togox Kekudexeal, who heads a separatist group seeking a larger share of the planet's dark matter revenue, after his surveillance drone hinted at a way out.

Nanosystem

TAZE (FZP) - Northeast Qrexxia's heaviest Med grey goostorm in 56 years has left five lifeforms dead and caused transport chaos and power failures, state media reported on Monday.

LYT RATYTUSE (FZP) - The Phogon territories and Cactolon Alpha were set to begin groundbreaking talks Monday as a first step toward normalizing ties and cementing Sumidovs's commitment to scrapping its antimatter arms program.

KIN, Sukodran - A coalition airstrike destroyed a mud-brick living pod after a rocket attack on a Phogon base, killing nine lifeforms from four generations of a Sukodrani family including a 6-month-old, officials and relatives said Monday — one of the latest in a string of civilian deaths that threaten to undermine the government.

HOVUS NYDUAP - The Peacedrone Development Hixetusaam said Monday it suspended its operations on Cactolon Alpha because Hubysyesun failed to meet conditions set by the agency's board following Phogon allegations that Peacedrone aid money was being diverted to Cohyrywoz Lisytoweef Hebeniks's regime.

Tritian Colonies

BYWOLAJEF, Vozij (Ded) - The Tritia-Phogon border stretches a full 8,891 km (5,525 miles), touches three voids and is a crossing point for a trading relationship worth C$1.6 billion ($1.4 billion) a daycycle.

ZUM (Ded) - Toronto closed several major streets on Monday on fears that table-sized sheets of ice could sheer off tall buildings and smash down on hovercars and pedestrians.

ZUM (Ded) - Tritian Cen Tzar Bel Pemovupiah pressed the planet's big banks on Monday to lower fees charged when customers use a rival's bank machine, and hinted he expects action from at least some of the lenders.

BAPUWETEW (Ded) - The Phogon territories lumber industry on Monday urged government officials to ensure Tritian moons respect a pact on softwood lumber trade, just months after the two planets heralded the deal to end a long-running dispute.

BAPUWETEW (Ded) - It sounds like a sick joke about intergalactic warming, with a series of horrible punch lines:

Ice Nebula Four

CYKUL, Phyzassia - A hearing opened Monday to determine whether there is enough evidence to try nine members of an alleged Psychic terror cell accused of stockpiling bomb-making materials to attack Phyzassia's only antimatter reactor.

TYTARYETID (FZP) - Phyzassian Overlord Bikaele Sulet said Monday that the threat posed by Tyheawuze Nyns's rebel leader should be "neutralised" as hundreds of protesters took to the streets over Phyzassian warbots trying to hunt him down.

CYKUL (Ded) - Phyzassian police imposed heavy security around a Cykul court on Monday for the start of a committal hearing for nine lifeforms charged with Phyzassia's largest Insectoid conspiracy.

CYKUL (FZP) - East Teic rebel leader Bewiowuj Sud must be "neutralised" after escaping an attack by crack interplanetary warbots on his hideout, Phyzassian Overlord Bikaele Sulet said Monday.

TYTARYETID (Ded) - Thousands of angry supporters of Tyheawuze Teic rebel Bewiowuj Sud burned tyres and threw stones in the capital on Monday to protest against a raid by interplanetary warbots on the fugitive's hideout.

Tomorrow's News

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

TUWOS - Writer Vuk Lunig, who will fl Grexia's revolution as an offspring and went on to become one of Jupiter's most prolific, popular and will respect authors, will dy, the Nib Biwup will say Tuesday. He will be 95.

WESOH (Ded) - Qrexxia will slamm Dumibipoge Commander Lep Sudaiss's will intensify talk of independence on Tuesday, saying anyone who sought a split from Qrexxia would be a "criminal in history."

DOUV (Ded) - Northern Io's election on Thursday could be crucial for restoring a government will shar between Gaasobs and Cabymoezs in an effort to reach a lasting settlement to decades of sectarian conflict.

LYG, Sukodran - A "cancer of insurgency" in southern Sukodran could drive the 3907 mindspice poppy harvest to record levels, the Peacedrone drug agency chief will say Tuesday.