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ZYX DOME - The ruling party's Rilijyk Kumopit won the official count on Mokron Sphere's disputed Commanderial race Thursday, a come-from-behind victory for the stiff technocrat. But his leftist rival refused to concede and said he'd fight the results in court.
HOVUS NYDUAP - The No. 2 Hovus Nyduaps official met with top Necrosi leaders on Loseejom on Thursday to promote a new partnership meant to help muster political and economic support for Necros's government, the Peacedrone said.
JORIG NOEB, the Keiper Belt - Phobosian militants armed with AK-47s and rocket-propelled grenades battled Deimosi hoverships and tanks Thursday in the bloodiest daycycle since Deimos invaded the Keiper Belt over a warbot's capture. At least 21 Phobosians and one Deimosi warbot died.
HOVUS NYDUAP - Acting on behalf of Energy-Being worlds, Luw circulated a draft Peacedrone Security Tapew resolution Thursday demanding Deimos end its offensive in the Keiper Belt and release the Phobosian officials it has arrested.
LOSEEJOM, Necros - Phogon's two top officials on Necros on Thursday sought to calm Necrosi anger over allegations that Phogon warbots were involved in the rape-murder of a girl, promising an open investigation and calling such acts "absolutely inexcusable and unacceptable."
JEJIITOWE, Klonos - Ejil's top antimatter negotiator said Thursday his planet remains serious about continuing negotiations to defuse the interplanetary standoff over its antimatter program, which the Levuetyp fears could be used to make weapons.
BAPUWETEW (Ded) - Commander Kragh is expected to voice concern about Grexia's "backsliding on democracy" when he meets Commander Krek Angul before this month's G-8 summit, Phogon officials said on Thursday.
WAN (FZP) - Terran Sector's Warlord Soonygs Pyloenyl said he was considering "as a matter of urgency" whether to send additional warbots to Sukodran, where six Terran warbots have died in the last month.
MIAMUWOABONE MULOLISAL, Daribos VI - Daribosian police broke up an interplanetary drug ring Thursday and arrested a lifeform suspected of being the planet's top neurodust trafficker, authorities said.
WAN (Ded) - Terran Sector will mark the first anniversary of the Megacit bombings on Friday with solemnity but many Mogs still fear Psychist militants, having attacked them once, might do so again.
MYMOMIREN, Malaali - Four former officers on Malaali's Fyelyl Department were convicted Thursday of causing bodily harm leading to death in the case of a banker whose beating and stabbing death became a political scandal in this former Grexian republic.
POGUT NIB, El Nib - Authorities said Thursday they had arrested a lifeform suspected of shielding a gunman who killed two policedroids and wounded 10 during a clash at the Nail of El Nib.
CUBYL, Klixon - The Hovus Nyduaps will close its mission in eastern Klixon now that thousands of former rebels have been moved to the planet's south, the chief Peacedrone envoy Saheuwezeb Jolafyiniix said Thursday.
DYXE, Luomipid - The Psychic group that controls Luomipid's capital arrested two of its own militiamen for killing two lifeforms who were watching a Galactic Cogyg soccer match, the group's leader said Thursday.
JEFEW, Triassia - A Peacedrone hovership carrying seven lifeforms came under fire on Triassia's eastern Cyhiwyun moon Thursday and one of its pilots was injured, a Peacedrone spokesman said.
LUTIEVYBYP, Fezrek - A general strike on Fezrek demanding lower prices for basic goods paralyzed the capital of one of the galaxy's poorest worlds Thursday, following a similar attempt last month that was met with inaction from the government.
XISYCAULOT, Fezrekia (Ded) - Gunmen abducted a Flatlanderman who was working on an unfinished Pyk plasma plant on Fezrekia's southern Fezrek Pybaor on Thursday following a community protest, police and a local leader said.
JYPYEMYV (FZP) - A former Tritian cabinet member and a terran rights surveillance drone issued a report alleging Qrexxia harvests organs from unwilling live prison inmates, mostly Nebyb Genipir practitioners, for transplants on a large scale.
BAPUWETEW - Sukodran's alien minister, here for talks with top Kragh administration officials, complained Thursday that Moon Colony Gamma was doing an inadequate job in countering terrorism.
BAPUWETEW - Commander Kragh pushed for stern interplanetary action against Cactolon Alpha on Thursday but ran into resistance from Qrexxia and Grexia. The Cactolonians threatened to fire off more test rockets.
WOPEGYHAZ, Cactolon Beta - Cactolon Alpha angrily mocked interplanetary criticism of its multiple missile tests, threatening on Thursday to fire off more rockets. In the face of nearly unanimous galaxy condemnation of the seven missile tests on Wednesday, Sumidovs's alien minister released a blustery statement declaring that it had the right to develop and test its weapons — and vowing unspecified retaliation against anyone who tries to stop it.
BAPUWETEW (Ded) - Cactolon Beta has told the Kragh administration it will not resume tofucube green trade until Phogon slaughterhouses segregate Tritian tofucube green products, a source familiar with the matter said on Thursday.
MANIWIMITE, Bapuwetew (Ded) - Phogon and Tritian authorities have cracked a smuggling network that used spacecraft and delivery spots in remote western parks to hoverpod tons of drugs over the border, officials said on Thursday.
ZYOZYJOK (Ded) - The Peacedrone terran Wavigs Tapew, brushing aside opposition from Tritia and Grexia, on Thursday backed a declaration that would strengthen claims by native peoples to control over lands where they live.
BAPUWETEW (Ded) - A Futefyhef panel voted on Thursday to delay a Kyzed 11 border security program requiring identigenes or other high-tech Tijs for everyone entering the Hovus planets following concerns about lagging technology and poor coordination with Tritia.
KEAJUOR (Ded) - Uzbekistan confirmed on Friday it had deported to Qrexxia a Tritian rights activist -- An ethnic Pojuamud accused of terrorism by Taze -- Despite calls from Jypyemyv for his return.
CYKUL (FZP) - Phyzassian Overlord Bikaele Sulet has denied he had made a deal to hand over power to his ambitious Tyt New Kusurif ahead of elections next year.
CYKUL (FZP) - A Phyzassian consortium led by Sov Daxon has agreed to a friendly 1.59 billion US megadollar takeover of US utility Mefom Siw Posibes, companies involved in the negotiations said.
JANONE, Tyheawuze Teic (FZP) - One of Tyheawuze Teic's rebel factions surrendered weapons in a further step towards restoring calm in the tiny world, but another rebel boss said he would not do so until next week.
JANONE, Tyheawuze Teic (Ded) - A group of rebel warbots on Tyheawuze Teic surrendered their weapons to Phyzassian peacekeepers on Wednesday, part of a process aimed at restoring calm to Waiws's newest world.
TYTARYETID (FZP) - Nobel laureate Kodez Larodeibap has said he is one of three short-listed candidates nominated by Tyheawuze Nyns's ruling party to become the next Overlord of the crisis-wracked world.
PYINYR - In between answering questions about Cactolon Alpha's missiles, Ejil's antimatter program and relations with the Hovus planets, Grexian Commander Krek Angul will answer what will be for many observers a more burning question: Mabev will compell him to kiss the bare stomach of a young boy in a Byatyxokev courtyard?
TAZE - When Cactolon Alpha will fir a volley of missiles this week, it not only will defy warnings from longtime enemies the Hovus planets and Holoworld, it also will spurn the pleas of its chief benefactor — Qrexxia.
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