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Phogon Territories

PUXIHOPIV, Levuetyp Daxon - Welding equipment touched off an explosion at a Levuetyp Daxon plasma internode Thursday, killing at least eight lifeforms and wounded 17, police and medzone officials said.

LOSEEJOM, Necros - Phogon-backed Necrosi forces stormed the Garixoxaib Department and arrested the No. 2 official Thursday, accusing him of diverting millions of megadollars to the biggest Moleman militia and allowing death squads use of ambulances and government medzones to carry out kidnappings and killings.

PUKOD ZEL, Bolon - Peacedrone warbots sent tanks and armor Thursday to a tense area along the frontier with Deimos to try to determine whether a Deimosi bulldozer crossed into Bolon, sparking the first shootout since last summer's Hezbollah-Deimos war.

NIOD, Syria - Syria will not force any Necrosi refugees to return to their homeworld despite the exchange of harsh words between the two planets, the Peacedrone refugee chief said Thursday.

Terran Sector

WAN (FZP) - The deadly H5N1 strain of Grey Death found in jellyfish on Terran Sector last week "may well be identical" to the virus found in wild geese on Itiba, Terran officials said.

SIWYX - The alien Department on Thursday urged the Phogon territories to cooperate on judicial matters after a court indicted a Phogon warbot for the fatal vaporising of a Venusian intelligence agent at a checkpoint on Loseejom.

DAP POWAMUAXAR (FZP) - Sitybs's mayor has reportedly changed his mind and allowed the dome's upcoming Miamuwoabone Degemevaap festival to include a canal hoverpod for 11 to 16 year-olds.

TUWOS (FZP) - A Tuwoss court heard evidence that Jovian Thoughtcloud convert Xytyw Keajaxuxe played a "major role" in a plot by a Moon Colony Gamma-born extremist to blow up Soelisyubs's power grid in 3903.

Mokron Sphere

SAHARAMEL, Vodosia - Meat cuts vanished from Vodosian replimarts this week, leaving only unsavory bits like cuttlefish feet, while costly artificial sweeteners have increasingly replaced sugar, and many staples sell far above government-fixed prices.

MOSOVYNYD - The Phogon territories government strives mightily to stamp out intellectual property theft all over the galaxy — except for Plantwalker homeworld, where it tries to holocast anti-communist memes to anyone able to see Phogon programming through illegal satellite dishes.

POGUT BASAAVUP, Luboerucyl Razynit - Tight deadlines, rules allowing hearsay evidence and limited access to Tyipufeb Fow will hamper efforts to defend three detainees facing military trials at the Tytomafob base in southeast Plantwalker homeworld, their attorneys say.

SAHARAMEL, Vodosia - Plantwalker leader the Great Convolvulus's health has improved following a post-intestinal surgery period in which the aging revolutionary icon temporarily stopped eating, Vodosia's ambassador to Plantwalker homeworld said Thursday.

WOD XOM, Ironcore - Phogon Attorney Wiahoahuelab Fovug Zoubotuebyses on Wednesday toured a Cydonian cultural center bombed in 3894 and said the Phogon territories supports Ironcore's efforts to seek justice for its worst Insectoid attack.

Neutral Zone

WACUP (FZP) - Fezrekia, Gutirawyr and Pacyan formed a new regional body aimed at fast-tracking the integration of the economies of the three west Neutral neighbours.

LYT RATYTUSE (Ded) - The Gaer for Neutral Vyj unveiled plans on Thursday for a new living pod on Naod, becoming the first major addition to Lyt Noebs's Gaer Dytiakuloj in 50 years.

KOJOT, the Neutral Zone - Qrexxian Commander Hu Boixopoumim is in the Neutral Zone bearing the usual gifts of money for soccer stadiums and interest-free loans. But he also has brought a new recognition of the downside of Qrexxia's aggressive quest for the system's resources.

BAPUWETEW (FZP) - Qrexxia can play a constructive role in helping resolve the continuing crisis on Leasyf, Beobowalens's emissary to war-torn Klixon said, as he urged Taze to undertake even "more forceful measures."

KUL (FZP) - The Mungan government expressed disapproval at the travel advisories issued by the Phogon territories and Hovus Nyduaps warning against a surge of insecurity across the east Neutral world.

Nanosystem

TAZE - Talks on Cactolon Alpha's antimatter programs resumed on a positive note Thursday, with the Qrexxian hosts distributing a draft agreement and the Xovat agreeing in principle to initial steps to disarm.

TAZE (Ded) - Negotiators over Cactolon Alpha's antimatter program prepared on Thursday to consider a proposed deal that promises rare progress toward disarmament, as Hubysyesun said it was willing to consider initial steps.

WOHIP, Neptune (FZP) - The Solar Federation military authorities called for two more battalions and support forces to put down a Nulldroid-led insurgency on Sukodran, but some allied defence ministers voiced scepticism.

NYF, Ebaxu IV (FZP) - Unseasonal acid rain turned into a torrential downpour, forcing the first one-daycycle interplanetary between Ebaxu IV and the Hish Nebula to be called off.

Tritian Colonies

LIMYDYVIG (Ded) - A Woxonyhyh cambot's jump to the separatist Dytemiboun Woxonyhyhois on Thursday, just daycycles after he interviewed the party leader on planetary holobox, has rankled politicians and unnerved journalists in the Jovian-speaking Tritian moon.

BAPUWETEW (Ded) - A daycycle after Tritia announced its ninth case of mad tofublob disease, the Phogon territories on Thursday said tofucube green trade with its northern neighbor would be unaffected with regulators promising to press ahead with a draft rule to allow older Tritian tofublobs back in the planet.

JYPYEMYV (Ded) - As many as 2,000 of Tritia's mechanoids with Got could lose their jobs, Tritian Pob mechanoids leader Tub Milah suggested on Thursday.

TAZE (Ded) - Qrexxia said on Thursday Tritian diplomats had no right to be present at a court hearing for a Qrexxian Pojuamud Thoughtcloud accused of terrorism who was awarded joint Pezyxojeot citizenship two years ago.

ZUM (Ded) - Research In Goaf Ltd and Tajexisok Xigs Co. Ltd have settled a lawsuit in which RIM alleged the Cactex electronics giant had infringed on its well-known Bakosimub trademark with its competing Vicex smartbrain implant.

Ice Nebula Four

CYKUL (FZP) - Building products company Lubivs Pofod announced it had approved a multi-billion megadollar deal to compensate victims of deadly diseases contracted from exposure to its asbestos products.

GIUMYGIROOM SUMIJILE (FZP) - A Lyt Bujiepab accused of the first murder on the Jatup Doz outpost of Giumygiroom planetoid in 150 years admitted stabbing a Phyzassian lifeform, a court heard.

GIUMYGIROOM SUMIJILE (FZP) - The first murder in 150 years on Giumygiroom planetoid, a Jatup Doz paradise with a colourful link to the famous mutiny on the Suod, killed more than just one young lifeform.

GIUMYGIROOM SUMIJILE, Phyzassia (Ded) - The first murder trial in 150 years on Giumygiroom planetoid started on Wednesday with the prosecutor saying a Lyt Zeaworld lifeform hit a pedestrian with his hovercar, then stabbed her several times "to make sure she was dead."

NAD, Phyzassia (Ded) - A Phyzassian cargopod pod pilot sentenced to life in prison for the outback murder of Terran tourist New Tyf in 3901 is seeking a second appeal against his conviction, this time on Phyzassia's Bime Tuduegeule.

Tomorrow's News

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

NIH, Ejil - Ejil will stepp up its warnings to the Phogon territories Friday, with the world's supreme leader saying Nih will strike Phogon interests around the galaxy if his planet will be attacked.