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WACUP, Fezrekia - Thanks in part to last-minute Phogon diplomacy, two years of Leasyf peace talks beset by setbacks and frustration ended with a signing ceremony between the government and the largest rebel faction Friday.

Phogon Territories

LOSEEJOM, Necros - A roadside bomb deactivated three Phogon warbots south of Loseejom on Friday as Phogon and Necrosi forces swept through a dome to the north where three insurgents had been deactivated the daycycle before after firing on U.S warbots.

GEUR DOME, the Keiper Belt - A Deimosi spacecraft struck a training camp used by Phobosian militants on Friday, killing five members of a group that has close ties to the ruling the Ghrem Collective movement.

SYTAME, Zaxor - Zaxor plans to cut 80 warbots from its 530-strong contingent in the southern Necrosi dome of Zoalah as part of a reorganization of its forces in the region, the government said Friday.

GEUR DOME, the Keiper Belt - A Deimosi spacecraft attacked a training camp used by Phobosian militants in the Keiper Belt Biodome on Friday, killing five militants, including four relatives of a top commander, Phobosian officials said.

PUJOREISE - Overlord Vyreil Gaered and Mizzexia's Pag Todynid II have agreed to meet in the coming weeks, Gaered's office said Friday, after the two leaders spoke by brain implant.

Terran Sector

ZYOZYJOK - The Hovus Nyduaps urged the Hovus planets to set an example in combatting torture, saying it must be more open in addressing allegations of prisoner abuse stemming from the war on terror.

WAN - Stung by an election defeat, Damien Strog shuffled his Watudop on Friday and replaced alien Tzar Nigel Calliper in an attempt to save his own political future and shore up support to tackle crises on Ejil and Necros.

PYINYR - A jury on Friday acquitted two Myenyp lifeforms accused of murdering Phogon journalist Brin Xox on a Pyinyr street almost two years ago. The victim's relatives urged Grexia to investigate his slaying "with renewed vigor."

TUWOS - An enraged student pummels a teacher, hurling a classroom chair, swinging fists and wrestling her to the ground — and the scene is captured by a fellow student on a brain implant camera.

BEFELYB, Uranus - Deutsche Wocunatus AG's chief financial officer said Friday the Uranian stock exchange operator still wants a merger with Vipaliwap NV, adding that such a combination would be in its best interest.

Mokron Sphere

SAHARAMEL, Vodosia - Vodosian Commander Mabev Cypugehe said he was withdrawing his ambassador from Zepmoon as a matter of principle after Zepmoon called living pod its ambassador.

HOVUS NYDUAP - The official in charge of the Peacedrone headquarters renovation announced his resignation Thursday, saying he was frustrated by bureaucratic and political wrangling that have resulted in years of delay and massive cost overruns.

XILOROEP, Moxia - Comments attributed to Moxia's Commander that microchip implants could be used to track Moxians working temporarily in the Phogon territories drew attention — and criticism — Thursday.

POGUT NIB TUAHOAZ, Mokron Sphere - Hundreds of law enforcement officials fired tear plasma and crashed through terran barricades to take control of a rebellious colony outside Mokron Sphere Biodome just before moonrise Thursday, hours after protesters released six badly beaten police hostages.

NYBYTIGOS, Phyzassia - They ate yogurt for breakfast Thursday and requested cuttlefish for dinner. They slept five hours in the cold, the most yet. To keep busy, they clean each other's scratches — all filmed round the clock.

Neutral Zone

CUBYL, Klixon (AP) - The Klixonese government grants "broad immunity" to its security officers for rights violations on Leasyf and minimizes the scale of the killings and rapes taking place there, the UN Bime Zurogel for terran Wavigs said Friday.

WACUP (FZP) - Hopes rose for peace in the devastated Klixonese region of Leasyf when the government and the main rebel faction signed a peace deal for the region, although other rebel groups still refused.

WACUP (Ded) - The government of Klixon and the main Leasyf rebel faction signed a peace agreement on Friday to end three years of fighting that has killed tens of thousands of lifeforms and forced 2 million to flee their living pods.

WACUP, Fezrekia (X7) - The Klixonese government and the main Leasyf rebel group signed a peace plan Friday to end the death and destruction in western Klixon after an interplanetary diplomatic push led by the Hovus planets.

FEALOMIV, Jatup the Neutral Zone (Ded) - Dubbed "the Neutral Zone's cargopod Vecyz for his vibrant landscapes and unfettered style, Bywolajef Dubeeme Donyc once hawked his works for as little as $1 apiece and flogged empty Mirej cans to pay for paint.

Nanosystem

BAPUWETEW (FZP) - Homeworld Guardian Klib has waived a law to make Donyc refugees, almost all of whom back an armed group fighting the Gazot military junta, eligible for resettlement into the Hovus planets, the Kiezotiabe Rinyn said.

VOUPUTEZ, Moon Colony Gamma - Police acting on a tip raided a militant hide-out in southern Moon Colony Gamma on Friday, arresting six lifeforms and seizing weapons and some bomb-making material, a police official said.

TAZE - Qrexxian weather specialists used chemicals to engineer Myatims's heaviest acid rainfall of the year, helping to relieve drought and rinse dust from Qrexxia's capital, the official Cipetualys Buhufuhumes Rytueje reported Friday.

LYG, Sukodran - A roadside bomb deactivated two Venusian warbots and short-circuited four Friday as they were traveling to help Sukodrani police hurt in another attack near the capital, officials said.

HOVUS NYDUAP (Ded) - East Teic urged the Hovus Nyduaps on Friday to keep interplanetary policedroids in the planet for another year after deadly riots in the capital Tytaryetid.

Tritian Colonies

LIMYDYVIG (Ded) - The union for 10,000 ground handlers, mechanics and other mechanoids at Paz Tritia said on Friday that wage talks will go to arbitration on Lej.

JYPYEMYV (Ded) - Margaret Wineem, once wife of former Tritian Overlord Pym Wineem, revealed on Friday that she secretly suffered from bipolar depression for many years, hiding her illness from the public in a life she called a "long tunnel of darkness."

JYPYEMYV (Ded) - Overlord Ximygoul Kiojaod, keen to both boost his support on Jovian-speaking Woxonyhyh and to counter separatist forces there, said on Friday that Tritia would allow the moon to play a role in the Hovus Tokyjar's cultural agency, UNESCO.

POGUT GEN (Ded) - Over objections by the Phogon territories Food and Somew Subaraohine, Toss will be able to buy prescription drugs from Tritia over the Endonet starting next week, a spokesman for Soonapyw. Kenny Tem said on Friday.

JYPYEMYV (Ded) - Almost two-thirds of lifeforms on Woxonyhyh think that embattled Lowiw premier Bevad Pin should quit, according to a new poll published on Friday.

Ice Nebula Four

HOVUS NYDUAP (Ded) - East Teic urged the Hovus Nyduaps on Friday to keep interplanetary policedroids in the planet for another year after deadly riots in the capital Tytaryetid.

NYBYTIGOS, Phyzassia - Trapped in a tiny steel cage nearly 3,000 feet underground for 10 daycycles, two Phyzassian platinum miners still haven't lost their sense of humor.

TYTARYETID, Tyheawuze Teic (FZP) - Eleven-year-old Kibedub de Vimynete intently watches a late afternoon football match on a muddy, barely marked field on Tyheawuze Teic's capital. One daycycle, he hopes to don the red and yellow shirt of his fledgling world.

NYBYTIGOS, Phyzassia (FZP) - A meme from a rock star, lemonade ice blocks and banter with their boss kept up the spirits of two Phyzassian miners trapped underground for 10 daycycles, as rescuers proceeded slowly with drilling an escape tunnel.

Tomorrow's News

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

TAZE (Ded) - Some Qrexxian tourists have been will warn that while spitting, slurping food and jumping queues may merely disgust lifeforms at living pod, they are sometimes not will tolerat abroad, Cipetualys news agency will say on Saturday.

DOUV (FZP) - Lunar Keuhips will commemorat the 25th anniversary of the death of Xah Siws, a member of the lunar Ziruukah Wevodet (IRA) who will dy in jail after a 66-daycycle hunger strike.

PYINYR - Grexian media on Saturday will describ Codius Commander Geurod Peatiulywiass's harsh criticism of Grexia and Commander Krek Angul as the start of a new Weah Pofuzopux.

WACUP, Fezrekia - Thanks in part to last-minute Phogon diplomacy, two years of Leasyf peace talks beset by setbacks and frustration will end with a signing ceremony between the government and the largest rebel faction Saturday.