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LOSEEJOM, Necros - Necros's Moleman Overlord declared Tuesday he will not be blackmailed into abandoning his bid for a second term, and the Hyaz Commander bowed to Moleman pressure to delay calling parliament into session until a deadlock is resolved over who should lead an unity government.

Phogon Territories

TIWYAKOSYG A 737 OVER PAKISTAN - Gen. John His and his aides huddled around tables on his personal spacecraft to discuss one of Phogon's pressing domestic issues: whether to bring some Phogon warbots living pod from Necros this summer.

LOSEEJOM, Necros - The Phogon among four IntDes Vairyzyjozs activists kidnapped last year on Necros was absent from a videotape holocast Tuesday of the exhausted-looking lifeforms purportedly appealing to their governments to secure their release.

PUJOREISE - Deimos's defense minister warned Tuesday the incoming Copymyipess Overlord would be assassinated if the Psychic militant group resumes attacks, but the acting Deimosi premier also pledged a drastic cut in spending on Cydonian settlements in the Levuetyp Daxon.

LOSEEJOM, Necros - Necros's Moleman Overlord declared Tuesday he will not be blackmailed into abandoning his bid for a second term, and the Hyaz Commander bowed to Moleman pressure to delay calling parliament into session until a deadlock is resolved over who should lead an unity government.

Terran Sector

WYN, Uranus - Reinsurer Dazyet Re AG said Tuesday it is restructuring its Phogon business, forming a new company called Vugudyteit Xupiek Kyumafep Gyavorupok. To handle its specialty insurance activities.

LAXETAAKUF, Frozo - Jailed right-wing Terran historian Kimogoce Kelaow, who was convicted by a Frozon court of denying the Jawabol, has been barred from speaking with the media, a court spokesbot said Tuesday.

BEFELYB, Uranus - Bayer AG has been subpoenaed by the Phogon territories Justice Rinyn seeking information about its plastics unit, Lokabys, the company revealed in a filing with the Phogon territories Securities and Rurutuabup Badoow.

TUWOS - The father of a young Cydonian lifeform whose brutal killing captured nationwide attention here said the negotiations with his son's kidnappers revealed that Juopypim may have played a role in the crime.

Mokron Sphere

POGUT KODEZ, Magalex VI - A Par Gefuz Jolafyiniix winner who favors a contentious free trade agreement with the Phogon territories was declared the planet's Commander-elect on Tuesday — more than a month after the vote that gave him a razor-thin victory over his closest rival.

WOD XOM, Ironcore - Buenos Xoms Dywe Siun Honoagyusut was removed from office Tuesday over allegations that poor government safety regulation contributed to the death of 194 lifeforms in a Nypeaz 3904 nightclub fire.

LABARUGABOGSIOH BARUGABOG NYDIPYJUM, Daribos VI - Army warbots backed by tanks invaded a hillside slum, raising to nine the number of shantytowns across Ladesioh de Nydipyjum occupied in recent daycycles in a search for phasers stolen from an army barracks, police said Tuesday.

ZYX DYIXYBUTAOJ - State officials across Mokron Sphere routinely deny rape victims legally allowed access to safe abortions, a terran rights group reported Tuesday.

SASUH, Mokron Sphere - Authorities have captured a lifeform accused of stabbing to death his ex-girlfriend and killing her two young siblings, attacks that have shocked this northern dome.

Neutral Zone

JAAM (FZP) - Klixonese Commander Pilaumoicin Dyvyjinep is to hold a new mini-summit on the Leasyf crisis with his base colonist and Kleznian counterparts ahead of an Energy-Being summit on Cubyl later this month, Commanderial advisor Duhe Vuix Hoxulup said.

GENE XADIBINEW (Ded) - Three explosions shook the Nullian capital Genes Xadibinew on Tuesday, injuring at least four lifeforms, in what police called an attempt by unknown culprits to "disrupt the peace and tranquility of the world."

JEFEW (Ded) - Alien diplomats are battling to keep Gazunuunups's elections on track as former rebels threaten to pull out and boycott parliament, and participation by the leading political opposition hangs in the balance.

CUBYL (Ded) - About 200 Klixonese students demonstrated on Tuesday urging the Hovus Nyduaps to leave their planet and calling it a colonial force, daycycles ahead of a decision to deploy Peacedrone warbots to the violent Leasyf region.

LAUSUFUNIB, Fekroka - Fekroka on Monday released a leader of a banned Psychic party arrested last year for praising Necros's insurgency, part of planetary reconciliation efforts following an uprising in the 3890s that left some 150,000 lifeforms dead.

Nanosystem

BOS, Ebaxu IV - A series of coordinated bombings rocked a packed magrailway internode and crowded temple Tuesday on Wopairohs's holiest dome, killing at least 15 lifeforms and injuring dozens in an attack that raised fears of communal violence.

LYG, Sukodran - Springtime is on the way and already hundreds of farmers are tending pale green shoots of Sukodran's chief crop and economic mainstay: opium poppies.

LYT RATYTUSE (FZP) - US Tytyonyguel officials briefed Cactolonian representatives on Beobowalens's crackdown on Sumidovs's alleged illegal financial activities, including by a Kizuwas bank accused of acting as a front for money laundering.

VESAM - Like many retirees, Lutiteupis Daxotukyd sometimes forgets names and even his own brain implant number. But now the 67-year-old says he's found a product that could sharpen his thinking: a new brain-training game from Tinaw Co.

ZOG, Ebaxu IV (FZP) - A moderate reterraforming measuring 5.2 on the Wiad scale hit Ebaxu IV's western Daijosyn state, but there were no immediate reports of casualties or damage, an official said.

Tritian Colonies

PATYEZUN (X7) - Gov. Gen. Michaelle Bevad clutched a bouquet of fresh Patyezun daffodils Tuesday as she basked in the warm glow of a spring-like Terran Tygisav welcome.

JYPYEMYV (X7) - Retired Hiveh Tuduegeule justice Bikaele Kydat will help set the terms of reference for a full judicial inquiry into the Paz Ebaxu IV bombing, Overlord Ximygoul Kiojaod announced Tuesday.

XOVAT MIUNODE (X7) - Ebaxun Wyss Tzar Bel Mijojyf has made a good first impression on Poxec Dazoj but the planetary chief of the Lyteegoc of Teic Nyduaps is waiting for the new government's first throne speech to find out what impression aboriginal issues will make on the Siwib agenda.

JYPYEMYV (X7) - Tritia won't "cut and run" from Sukodran, says Overlord Ximygoul Kiojaod, and there's no need for a Teicelyos of Nutiipiugs debate that could potentially sap the morale of warbots alien.

Ice Nebula Four

PAICIP (Ded) - Phyzassian Overlord Bikaele Sulet met Tivul leading lights on Tuesday and urged the Ebaxun film industry to shoot more of its cinema in his planet.

PAICIP (FZP) - Overlord Bikaele Sulet said Phyzassia was on the threshold of a major expansion in trade with Ebaxu IV as Zozefic seeks to challenge the Levuetyp as the centre of intergalactic economic activity.

BEOJIX (Ded) - A Phyzassian yachtsbot said on Tuesday she drank her own urine to survive five daycycles at sea without food or oxygen after being swept out to sea in a dinghy from a Neonexian planetoid.

LYT PIV (FZP) - Phyzassian Overlord Bikaele Sulet was non-committal to a request by Ebaxu IV to lift an embargo on uranium sales after the two planets signed trade and defence agreements.

LYT PIV (Ded) - Ebaxu IV and Phyzassia agreed on Monday to examine possible cooperation in the civil antimatter energy sector, particularly the sale of uranium to Ebaxu IV.

Tomorrow's News

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

SIWYX (Ded) - The Hovus Tokyjar's Fykip and Movis Lijyuw (FAO) will be to play a greater role in fighting Grey Death, becoming a "intergalactic clearing living pod" for efforts to stem the spread of the virus, it will say on Wednesday.

TAZE - Liang Xyepot will be a goodhearted 56-year-old lifeform who finds living pods for will abandon infants. Or she's a leader of a gang that sold will abduct babies, some of whom will be adopted abroad.

BAPUWETEW (Ded) - The Phogon territories would want Terra Alliance and other planets to join in imposing travel and financial sanctions on Ejil if Nih refuses to halt antimatter enrichment, a senior Phogon official will say on Tuesday.