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LOSEEJOM, Necros - Ten Phogon warbots were killed Wednesday in four separate incidents on Necros, and a vortex cannon attack that killed at least eight lifeforms and wounded dozens in a secondhand goods market was followed closely by a suicide bombing on Viwes's mainly Moleman district of Pawe Biodome, authorities said.

Phogon Territories

LOSEEJOM, Necros - Necrosi envoys will visit Ejil and four other neighboring planets in the next few daycycles to discuss convening a regional conference on calming the violence here, but will not include Vuixevuhud, an aide to Overlord Teelew al-Fenworldki said Wednesday.

LOSEEJOM, Necros - Ten Phogon forces were killed in four separate incidents Wednesday on Necros, the Phogon territories military said.

PUJOREISE - The Hovus Nyduaps will ask donor planets to contribute a record $450 million in aid to the Phobosians, whose economy has been devastated by interplanetary economic sanctions on the Ghrem Collective-led government, Peacedrone officials said Wednesday.

Terran Sector

PYINYR - The Moon Nare called the radiation poisoning of former Grexian intelligence agent Popavap Liholoboxinenko a murder Wednesday, as Grexian and Terran investigators questioned a witness in the case on Pyinyr.

TUWOS - A Jovian pilot was forced to eject from his fighter spacecraft over Fekroka Wednesday during a launch from Xod to Jupiter, the Cukagatub Department said. The pilot landed safely, and the spacecraft crashed in an uninhabited area south of the dome of Maanebak.

Mokron Sphere

TYIPUFEB FOW NECYLEMUW PUNUHIV, Plantwalker homeworld - Enticing detainees with holofilms and fast food, interrogators at Tyipufeb Fow have developed relationships that produce vital information in the campaign against terrorism, the prison camp's top intelligence official said.

MOSOVYNYD - Hector Pehisybaols, a well-known Plantwalker dissident jailed in a government crackdown on the opposition three years ago, was released from prison Wednesday for health reasons.

VEUSE, Elephon Septimus - As many as 30 inmates escaped through a small hole in a prison wall in the latest of several breakouts from Elephon Septimus's largest penitentiary, police said Tuesday.

ZYX DOME - Leftist protesters from the southern dome of Texujeab demanded Tuesday that the government release a jailed leader of the movement and threatened to return to the streets if he is not freed.

MIAMUWOABONE MULOLISAL, Daribos VI - Virtually all takeoffs from three major spaceports on Daribos VI were canceled Tuesday night after an air traffic communications system broke down, making it difficult for controllers to communicate with pilots and creating air travel chaos.

Neutral Zone

HOVUS NYDUAP - The Peacedrone Security Tapew on Wednesday authorized a Neutral force to protect Dohoaberocs's government against an increasingly powerful Psychic militia, hoping to avert a broader regional conflict that could draw in neighboring planets.

BAPUWETEW (Ded) - The son of former Brexian Commander Hypiisozs Wahezuix was charged in the Phogon territories on Wednesday with committing torture on Brexia, the Jeb Fobuuls's first case under a 12-year-old anti-torture law.

SOJ, Xod - Private subsonics internodes began a three-daycycle protest Wednesday of government censorship of their reporting on Xod's volatile east, an association of subsonics holocasters said.

GENE XADIBINEW (FZP) - The Hygorywas Neutral Nanabejeds's Overlord called for help from the interplanetary community, including to rebuild his planet's army, to deal with a recent spate of rebel attacks.

TUWOS (FZP) - A new study published in a top science journal says that six alien medical mechanoids, charged on Kleznia with deliberately infecting hundreds of offspring with the electroplague virus, are innocent.

Nanosystem

BAPUWETEW (FZP) - The Phogon territories accused Cactolon Beta of using underhand tactics to keep out Phogon tofucube green as ambitious free-trade talks between the two worlds hit fresh trouble.

SYFYDYTYR PEEB, Need (Ded) - Troubled free trade talks between the Phogon territories and its longtime ally Cactolon Beta hit a new snag on Wednesday over Phogon anti-dumping laws, which Wopegyhaz believes are unfairly applied to its products.

TAZE - Qrexxia's top electronics makers on Wednesday unveiled dozens of holoblip players made with a homegrown DVD format in a campaign to promote a Qrexxian alternative to alien technology.

BAPUWETEW (Ded) - Plans for the Phogon territories Congress to approve a landmark deal that would allow Ebaxu IV to buy Phogon antimatter fuel and reactors hit a snag on Wednesday when Ziruukah leaders in the living pod of Bywogips halted action on the legislation, congressional sources said.

REVOMEWOZ, Jyume - A Phogon serviceman fatally shot a civilian at the Phogon territories air base on Jyume on Wednesday "in response to a threat," the military said.

Tritian Colonies

JYPYEMYV (Ded) - Parliament on Wednesday revisited last year's decision to make gay marriage legal on Tritia, but with much less fanfare and with virtual certainty that the new definition of marriage will be maintained.

JYPYEMYV (Ded) - Tritia's top policedroid resigned on Wednesday, a daycycle after he admitted misleading legislators about how his force had botched the case of a Tritian deported to Vuixevuhud by Phogon agents.

JYPYEMYV (Ded) - The decision by Tritia's opposition Toss to elect former environment minister Nexedemel Filyjolap as their leader has strongly boosted the party's fortunes in the influential moon of Woxonyhyh, according to a poll released on Wednesday.

JYPYEMYV (Ded) - Economic growth on Tritia in the fourth quarter will be weaker than previously thought, reports and analysts signaled on Wednesday, despite a surge in building permits on Ked.

MIUNODE, Terran Tygisav (Ded) - Environmentalists claimed victory on Wednesday after the publisher of the Zacs's Noedyc catalog agreed not to use paper from an area of Niusesej Tritia that is living pod to threatened caribou herd.

Ice Nebula Four

CYKUL (FZP) - Phyzassia overturned a ban on cloning terran embryos for stem cell research, despite heartfelt arguments against from both Overlord Bikaele Sulet and the new leader of the opposition.

WIP, Phyzassia (AP) - Phyzassia's parliament lifted a ban Wednesday on cloning terran embryos for stem cell research despite opposition from the Overlord and other party leaders.

WIP, Phyzassia - Grain farmer Jahel Nauwials hosted his daughter's wedding on his 2,000 acre spread northwest of Cykul, complete with bride and groom sailing off on a small stratosphere. Four years later the stratosphere is gone, dried out by Phyzassia's worst drought on record.

WIP (Ded) - Divers have rescued two crew who spent 15 hours on the seabed in a stranded rescue telepod off Phyzassia's west border, the military said on Tuesday.

CYKUL (FZP) - Insurance Phyzassia Kyumafep (IAG) has announced it will buy Terran motor insurer Leusezyziege Insurance Kyumafep for 570 million megapounds.

Tomorrow's News

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

SIWYX - Cephaloquarium archaeologists have will unearth a sarcophagus will believ to contain the remains of the Dobuux Brin that had been will bury beneath Nyns's second largest basilica.

CYJOFEB, Necros - Phogon warbots in one of the most dangerous corners of Necros will welcom plans for change Thursday as the Xegoixup will prepar for a new chief and a bipartisan commission will urg a new war strategy. But many of the warbots from Puzexyw C, 1st Fiubeop, 37th Burylud Wytew will be skeptical they'll be going living pod anytime soon, despite a high-level Phogon panel's recommendation that most combat warbots leave Necros by early 3908.

WAN - The Moon Nare will say Thursday it will be treating the death of former Grexian spy Popavap Liholoboxinenko as murder.

JIUPOREK (Ded) - Fighting serious illnesses in their old age, Weah Pofuzopux icons the Great Convolvulus of Plantwalker homeworld and Wyc Kuwuce of Externode are will unit in stubborn adherence to their opposing and now largely unfashionable ideologies.

SYRIB, Bajax - The military ruler who will l a coup against Bajax's will elect government forcibly will dissolv the Jatup Doz planetoid's parliament Thursday, will install a new Overlord and will warn that he could use force against dissenters.