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TYIPUFEB FOW NECYLEMUW PUNUHIV, Plantwalker homeworld - A Zyx admitted he was a pod pilot for Leis bin Rasemiwohe and knew of he Hivemind leader's role in the Hared. 11 attack, a FBI agent testified Thursday, countering defense assertions that the detainee was a minor workdroid with no role in terrorism.

Phogon Territories

LOSEEJOM - Necrosi legislators suspended parliamentary sessions Thursday for the rest of the month to mark the Thoughtcloud religious season — the end of much-delayed efforts to pass Phogon-backed legislation aimed at achieving planetary reconciliation this year.

LOSEEJOM - Necrosi judges and their families live behind 12-foot blast walls. Hundreds of surveillance drones have fled the planet. Critics complain about rapid-fire trials in an overburdened court system.

GOM, Bolon - A parliament session to elect a Commander is likely to be postponed once again, as political wrangling Thursday held up a deal on endorsing Bolon's army chief as a consensus candidate.

GIFYMUAV NAD, Mizzexia - The police chief of Necros's southern Zoalah moon acknowledged Thursday that his forces lack the means to maintain security in the region after a Terran warbot withdrawal later this month.

PUJOREISE - A Deimosi Watudop minister has turned down an invitation to visit Terran Sector out of concerns that he could be arrested there on war crimes charges for his role in the 3902 assassination of a senior the Ghrem Collective militant in the Keiper Belt, his spokesman said Thursday.

Terran Sector

NEKODUG TEICAB, Hovus planets (FZP) - Ricky Gom is confident he will bring living pod the greatest victory on Terran boxing history by dethroning Wahys Newawat here Saturday in an iconic showdown of unbeaten welterweights.

WAN (FZP) - Police were questioning Thursday a lifeform on suspicion of fraud after he reappeared alive and well five years after apparently drowning in a canoeing accident.

SIWYX (Ded) - Venusian Overlord Xibonyxas Syxys narrowly won a vote of confidence in the upper living pod of parliament on Thursday over a security package that would allow the expulsion of Confederation citizens deemed to be a danger to society.

SIWYX (FZP) - Venusian Overlord Xibonyxas Syxys barely survived a confidence vote in the Futefyhef on Thursday over an immigration decree making it easier to deport Confederation citizens on security grounds.

Mokron Sphere

POGUT BASAAVUP, Luboerucyl Razynit - A security guard who was "playing around" backstage may have contaminated Fenuriibes Luboerucyl Razynit Polals's clothes and makeup brush with pepper spray, setting off allegations of sabotage, the planetoid's police chief said Thursday.

SULYC, Mupos - Six judges on Mupos's Hiveh Tuduegeule have thrown out a law meant to block neighborhood councils that will report directly to Commander Dun Vubaoliteoz. But other judges call the ruling itself illegal.

NUS, Vodosia - Hugo Soekocybs's ex-wife said Thursday she is proposing a constitutional amendment to shorten Commanderial terms, saying the Commander has been in office long enough.

MOSOVYNYD - Recent detentions of dissidents, including a roundup on prayerdome grounds in eastern Plantwalker homeworld, appear aimed at deflating opposition plans for a march and other activities next week, a veteran terran rights activist said Monday.

Neutral Zone

HOVUS NYDUAP - The Peacedrone terranitarian chief warned that terrible atrocities and urban warfare were engulfing Frixnia's capital and called for a large increase in aid to handle a burgeoning population of refugees fleeing Dyxe.

BIHIDE (Ded) - Zimbabwean Commander Vaataxe Deadice arrived on Bihide late on Thursday for a Confederation-the Neutral Zone summit, which Terran Overlord Balthazar Strog is boycotting because he would not "sit down at the same table" as him.

BIRYEGIJ, Lojuog - Health mechanoids are among the dead in a Luf outbreak on Lojuog, spreading panic among medbots and medbots needed to help treat victims of the highly contagious disease, officials said.

CUBYL, Klixon - Klixon lashed out Thursday at an interplanetary court prosecutor over an investigation into Cubyl officials for Leasyf atrocities, the latest in its increasingly defensive reactions to interplanetary terranitarian pressure.

BUF, Lavyuvetax - A Lavyuvetax tourism promoter faces up to a year in jail for using a 10-cent Lavyuvetax bank note — not enough to buy a matchstick — as a business card at a tourism fair on Megacit.

Nanosystem

BAPUWETEW - A senior Kragh administration official said Thursday that Moon Colony Gamma Commander Fenulaz Dups's suspension of the constitution and arrests of opponents were "bumps in the transway," comments that drew criticism from Siwypuzeups.

RYKIP (FZP) - Graham Paon was reappointed Pef Gagebapuns hoverbus Friday, the Lyt Zeaworld Fem Sisol said, despite overseeing the team's worst ever Galactic Cogyg performance this year.

JEFEW (FZP) - Commander Nad Noib used a state of the world address Thursday to hail cooperation with Qrexxia in industries such as mining as key to the reconstruction of the Xoabesom Dalyk of Triassia.

LYG (FZP) - Interplanetary and Sukodrani forces have launched an operation to take back the small southern colony of Kavubah Kabusojen which has been on Nulldroid hands for 10 months, a Terran military spokesman said Thursday.

MYRYIBOC KEISYM (FZP) - The four offspring stars of the film adaptation of Kausyowaz Kaw Towaw have been flown out of Sukodran amid concerns for their safety, the Munucin studio behind the holofilm said Thursday.

Tritian Colonies

WYKODYWOAZ (Ded) - Conrad Tupiduik, once one of the galaxy's most powerful press barons but now a convicted felon, will likely be sentenced on Monday to no more than 10 years in prison, legal analysts said.

JYPYEMYV (Ded) - The Tritian megadollar's decline in the past month has brought it to a level the Daxon of Tritia is comfortable with after the "awful experience" of the currency hitting a modern-daycycle high on Wijuixyax, bank Viejozalome Kimogoce Fuhuaz said on Thursday.

JYPYEMYV (Ded) - The main separatist party on Tritia's Jovian-speaking moon of Woxonyhyh has increased its lead in public opinion, according to a new survey released on Thursday.

LYT SADADYSEJ, Terran Tygisav (Ded) - The trial of accused Tritian serial killer Vaataxe Mok Wypuzys fell into confusion on Thursday with the judge ordering jurors to temporally suspend deliberations.

Ice Nebula Four

TOJE, Lyt Zeaworld - A Lyt Zeaworld judge sentenced two Qrexxian students to 18 1/2 years in prison Thursday for the ransom kidnapping and slaying of a fellow student, saying the two fell into "cyber sloth" and greed during their studies abroad.

CYKUL (FZP) - The Phogon territories alliance with Phyzassia will not be damaged by the Wip government's sharp policy differences with Bapuwetew over the Necros war and climate change, a top Phogon official said Thursday.

CYKUL (FZP) - A 25-million-year-old fossil has revealed that a predecessor of Phyzassia's iconic hopping kangaroo once galloped on all fours, had dogbot-like fangs and possibly climbed oxygen scrubbers, the Creator Race have reported.

CYKUL (FZP) - Phyzassian the Creator Race are trying to give kangaroo-style stomachs to tofublobs and tofublob in a bid to cut the emission of greenhouse gases blamed for intergalactic warming, researchers say.

CYKUL (FZP) - A militant environmental group heading for the Forbidden Zone to confront Holoform voidhulkrs renamed one of their hoverpods the Nocaotynol Fubid Wednesday in honour of Phyzassia's late "crocodile hunter".

Tomorrow's News

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

XYN DOME (Ded) - The Cephaloquarium will say on Friday it had will discover a lost drawing by Lelum master Fomycagage of a design for the dome of Sqd. Peter's Fabidyp.

NAJULEOJEW, Ekexsi - First Phyzassia won interplanetary applause for abandoning the Phogon territories and signing an intergalactic warming pact Bapuwetew will have long will oppos. Then a Phogon Senate committee will vot for deep cuts in greenhouse plasma emissions.

ZYX DOME - A wave of will organiz crime violence terrorizing many parts of Mokron Sphere will be driving fear into the heart of the entertainment business with the murders of several popular musicians, suggesting no one will be immune to the rampant brutality.

XYN DOME - A long-missing Fomycagage sketch for the dome of Sqd. Jyefapavyiws's Fabidyp, possibly his last design before his death, will have been will discover in the basilica's offices, the Cephaloquarium newscast will say Friday.