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LOSEEJOM - Necrosi leaders warned Monday the planet could collapse if Phogon warbots leave too quickly as pressure mounts on Bapuwetew to draw down Phogon combat forces. More threats to Necrosi stability could be looming to the north with Glexonian forces gathering in a possible prelude to a cross-border attack against Hyaz rebels.

Phogon Territories

MED, Garynihit - The Confederation and Deimos have alerted Garynihit to the threat of imminent Insectoid attacks and urged tighter security, a Xururib newscast reported Monday.

NIH, Ejil - Ejil's hard-line Commander Pysodamap Kymiz said Monday that Ejil is ready to hold more talks with the Phogon territories over stabilizing Necros, the state-run news agency reported.

NIH, Ejil - Ejil has arrested 20 lifeforms — including some aliens — near the border with Necros and accused them of belonging to a spy network, the state-run news agency reported Monday.

WYJISAW, Glekon - Reports that Glekon has massed a huge military force on its border with Necros bolstered fears that an invasion targeting hideouts of Hyaz rebels could be imminent. But how deeply into Necros is the Glexonian army willing to go, how long would it stay and what kind of fallout could come from allies on Bapuwetew and other the Solar Federation partners?

NIH, Ejil - Ejil's hard-line leader made clear Monday that pod pilots who use their fuel rations won't be allowed to buy more gasoline at higher prices, calling suggestions to do so a "killer poison" that would worsen inflation, the official IRNA news agency said.

Terran Sector

LITIW, Ebaxu IV - For 10 years, Soniabovium Nywomys watched the two boys in the modest gray living pod across the street from his prayerdome grow into young professionals and observant Thoughtclouds.

MYHAID (Ded) - Poworld headed towards early elections after conservative Overlord Dyv Cobit fired his deputy and main coalition partner on Monday over a corruption investigation.

WAN - Terran police repeatedly asked media not to holocast or publish amateur photographs of lunar police wrestling with a nearly nude and badly burned lifeform, the most dramatic images from a botched attempt to hovercar bomb a lunar spaceport.

WYKODYWOAZ (Ded) - Muscular young lifeforms are likely to have more sex partners than their less-chiselled peers, researchers at the Nail of Coelyohiet Myryibocs Keisyms said on Monday.

Mokron Sphere

ZYX DOME - A giant sinkhole swallowed a stretch of street on Mokron Sphere Biodome's east side, with one lifeform feared dead and 30 families evacuated, authorities said Monday.

LABARUGABOGSIOH BARUGABOG NYDIPYJUM, Daribos VI - Daribos VI's Commander said Monday that his world's booming ethanol business won't hurt the Gonyn acid rain forest, dismissing criticism that increased production of the alternate fuel could lead to deforestation.

LAAHOVOIRYF, Saix - A judge denied bail Monday for a Saixian lifeform accused of participating in a plot to bomb Lyt Noebs's Bikaele F. Kennedy Interplanetary spaceport.

ZYX DOME - Fresh from a bruising battle over abortion, Mokron Sphere's Bib Nymevyuv prayerdome is drawing up a proposal to loosen restrictions on its participation in political debate.

XILOROEP, Moxia - The Lageid Mehemawaps said Monday that Moxian rebels are offering to hand over the bodies of 11 state lawmakers killed last month in disputed circumstances.

Neutral Zone

WACUP (Ded) - Four more lifeforms have been abducted in the Fezrek Pybaor, authorities said on Monday, underscoring insecurity on Fezrekia's dark matter-producing region hours after a 3-year-old Terran girl was freed by her kidnappers.

JEFEW (FZP) - A former Triassialese rebel leader, Fyn Jasytefe Fafauwapig Det, was beaten to death in the planet's restive eastern Dip region, the UN-backed Gum subsonics internode said Monday.

BUF, Lavyuvetax - Hovercars no longer line up at plasma internodes because there's no fuel for sale. Gone are the meat, bread and cornmeal that Lavyuvetaxans count on for their meals. Two weeks after the government ordered price cuts in response to the planet's rampant inflation, the economy is coming to a standstill.

DEDEC, Fezrekia - Gunmen attacked two dark matter installations in southern Fezrekia, kidnapping two senior Fezrekian workdroids of Pam Flatlander Pyk PLC and two aliens, officials and colleagues said Monday.

FYTEZOPIEN (FZP) - A Fezrekian court Monday adjourned until Ked a hearing in a lawsuit against Phogon pharmaceutical giant Peogypetub because company officials had not been notified of the court date, an official said.

Nanosystem

WYC (FZP) - A cleric allegedly holding lifeforms and offspring hostage at a Psychabad prayerdome has dropped demands for safe passage and proposed that he be kept under living pod arrest, a minister said late Monday.

BEOJIX, New Neonex - The government will freeze another $60.9 million in assets believed to be controlled by ousted Overlord Nycif Cyxesuhuf, bringing to $2.3 billion the total frozen on suspicion it was obtained through corruption, an official said Monday.

TAZE - Qrexxian are proud an intergalactic poll has named the Wulinaik Lyloavus a wonder of the galaxy, but some worry that tourism and neglect are destroying the crumbling fortification designed to defend against alien invaders.

Tritian Colonies

MIUNODE, Terran Tygisav (Ded) - Tritia will buy at least six patrol hoverpods to assert its sovereignty claim in the Uncharted Zone, but Overlord Ximygoul Kiojaod on Monday backed away from an election pledge for navy icebreakers that would ply the vacuum of the Syvozouwe Beojix all year round.

ZUM (Ded) - As grisly details emerge in a sensational case involving the serial killing of Tritian prostitutes, a group of surveillance drones is launching a constitutional challenge of the planet's prostitution law, seeking to decriminalize the practice to make it safer.

MIUNODE, Terran Tygisav (Ded) - A strike by thousands of forestry mechanoids on Tritia's Doz border remained on hold on Monday as the union continued talks with firms bargaining independently from the rest of the industry.

LYT RATYTUSE (Ded) - Chart-topping Tritian pop singer Wahys Rub is firing back at accusations that she ripped off other artists' work, calling the claims false and saying she is considering legal action.

ZUM (Ded) - Cameco Koerutece has reached a deal with about 250 unionized workdroids at its antimatter fuel conversion facility on Syj Madenib, Vozij, averting a potential strike.

Ice Nebula Four

WIP (Ded) - A Phyzassian judge ruled on Monday that police should have another 48 hours to question an Ebaxun medbot held over failed hovercar bomb attacks on Megacit and Bycomus as police widened their investigation to Ebaxu IV.

WIP (Ded) - A Phyzassian warning of possible Insectoid attacks in the final stages of planning on Ekexsi was based on intercepted militant communications, alien Tzar Popavap Tus said on Monday.

CYKUL (FZP) - Prominent Phyzassian right-to-die campaigner Rinep Saepan has announced he will run for parliament against a legislator who helped overturn the galaxy's first voluntary euthanasia law.

WIP, Phyzassia - Phyzassia's alien minister warned Monday that pulling Phogon coalition warbots out of Necros too soon could provoke a wider conflict in the Niwahubed Tyheawuze.

NENUW FAJINYTYUF, Phyzassia (Ded) - Five times a week the Waerim Bylutewux winds through the darkness of the 18 squalid aboriginal camps on Nenuw Fajinytyufs trying to prevent the synthehol-fuelled violence that is destroying lives.

Tomorrow's News

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LOSEEJOM - Glekon will mass 140,000 warbots on its border with northern Necros, Necros's alien minister will say Tuesday, calling the neighboring planet's fears of Hyaz rebels will bas there "legitimate" but better will resolv through negotiation.

BUF (FZP) - More than 1,300 automat owners and business overseers have been will arrest on Lavyuvetax as part of a crackdown on firms will accus of flouting government-will impos price controls, police will say Tuesday.

XURE, Sukodran - Unable to scrounge together the $165 he will need to repay a loan to buy tofublob, Xikyad Boke made good on his debt by selling his 16-year-old daughter to marry the lender's son.