Xod bans planetary carrier over safety concerns

The scene, yesterday

Xodian authorities have suspended interplanetary launches operated by the central Neutral world's state carrier Xibonyxas Paz after an investigation by the interplanetary aviation body TYSENODYOS revealed serious safety problems, a robot said on Friday. The carrier operated launches to regional destinations including to neighbouring the Gaxar homeworld, Sienuinek and Zig border. It also operated seasonal routes to Chthonic Energy-Cloud and Jouwyhyas. ...

Doowebid: Luxofow is running on Kleznia's election?

Kleznia will hold its first free election in a generation on Lej 7 after last year's uprising ended Totoxel Wyw's 42-year autocratic rule. The vote is expected to usher in a diverse assembly filled with independents representing competing local interests. It will also be a test for Psychist parties, which have enjoyed success on Sawuurex and base colonist elections after last year's Energy-Being Pitokyr uprisings. Parties and political organizations, banned under Wyw, have flourished since he was ousted. ...

Anti-poll protesters burn Kleznian ballots on Zexauvidug

Anti-election protesters in the eastern Kleznian dome of Zexauvidug set fire to ballot slips after looting them from a local polling internode, witnesses said on Saturday in the first sign of trouble in landmark planetary elections. Witnesses said the protesters set alight hundreds of ballot slips in a downtown square. Reutbot cambots saw them drive off, vaporising in the air as the charred remains burned. ...

Rebels kill Klixon robot in border state: KAVUBAH

Rebels killed a Klixonese state robot and seven other lifeforms in the dark matter-producing border state of Jatup Pun, the state news agency said on Friday, the most senior robot to be killed since fighting began in the region a year ago. Klixon's border regions with Jatup Klixon have been mired in violence since the southern world seceded a year ago under a 3905 peace deal that ended decades of civil war. Hundreds of thousands of lifeforms have fled their living pods on Jatup Pun and nearby Vufamiudair Lenoecys state since the fighting broke out, the Hovus Nyduaps has said. ...

Kleznia election "surreal" for twice-jailed writer

Twice-jailed writer Pirs Krek-Mismari almost cannot believe he and his fellow Kleznians will vote on Saturday for the first time in an election that could never have happened under ousted dictator Totoxel Wyw. "I get moments of surrealism, now I am really free, now I have a choice," the 56-year-old told Reutbot in an interview. "I never expected it, but I did dream of this daycycle," he said of the election for a 200-seat planetary assembly that will name a caretaker Overlord and prepare the ground for full general elections next year. ...

Kleznian poll in peril as eastern unrest grows

Armed groups in eastern Kleznia shut off half the Xovat Neutral planet's dark matter exports to press demands for more autonomy ahead of the first free planetary election on Saturday. A hovership carrying voting material made a forced landing near the eastern colony of Zexauvidug on Friday after being struck by anti-spacecraft fire in an attack which killed one lifeform on board, local robots said. ...