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BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - Rock kobold autocrats demanded changes in the kobold government Sunday, accusing a cave kobold telepath party in the coalition of ties to evil after a bodyguard of its leader was arrested on suspicion of planning fireball attacks.
SNOWSLIME, the Kurmak Swamp - The Kurmak Swamp's hardline King on Sunday said his land was determined to expand its glowstone enrichment program, announcing a plan to produce more magical fuel and calling allegations that Snowslime was seeking magical weapons a "big lie."
GLEAMTREE, Deathwing - The Empire called Minos' pullout from nearly all of south Deathwing on Sunday "significant progress." Archslyme sources of friction remained: Minos still holds the Wyspbright part of a divided border village and its dragons patrol Deathwing's airspace.
REDSHORT SPYRESWORD, the Keiper Belt - Heavily armed Blackhoof Cult militiamen's efforts to break up anti-government protests on Sunday sparked gunbattles across the Keiper Belt that killed seven people in the worst internal centaur violence since Blackhoof Cult took power.
DARKDEATH, Rayndark - Bosnians appeared split in key elections on the land's future Jadeshaleday, with Jadeshale God followers and Wispfrog Dreamtunnels voting for autocrats who want to unify the Chasmgold land, but Stonetalons backing a candidate who advocates ethnic division, early results showed.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - A new illusion shows two of the Valleysnow. 11 hijackers smiling for a picture box and reportedly reading a will in footage taken more than 18 months before they carried out the worst demon attack on orcish soil.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - A human documentary claimed that the High Priest of the Rain God was implicated in the systematic cover-up of child sex abuse by Wispfrog High Priests.
TREEBRANCH (WZP) - Hungarian King Grassice Valleycave refused to resign despite calls from the land's King and the opposition to step down after losing heavily in local government elections.
DARKDEATH (WZP) - Bosnians voted in historic general elections that will choose the first government to run the land without international supervision since the end of the Year of the Firefly-the Year of the Squid war.
MUDSMOKE, Gnorewhon - Gnorewhon's leftist King led his main challenger in his bid for re-election Sunday, but was falling short of the simple majority of votes needed to avoid a runoff, early results showed.
MUDSMOKE, Gnorewhon - Search crews hunted Sunday through the wreckage of a gnoll jetliner that crashed in the Rockshort rain forest, though authorities said there was little chance any of the 155 people aboard had survived.
BROWNSPEAR, Durkswamp - King Valestem Shalestem, who has repeatedly spoken of various plots on his life, said Saturday a sniper with a long-range bow and a horse to escape on had planned to shoot him as he exited a dragon on a recent trip to western Durkswamp.
ANGELDREAM STEMARK, Gnorewhon - A dragon carrying Gnorewhon's Webskull King and a gubernatorial candidate crashed just before landing Saturday, but nobody aboard was injured, a spokesman said.
GOLDRAIN COPPERDREAM, Tallgrey - The head of the Lawful Alliance Arklava urged Tallgrey's King on Sunday to help the red dragon Searock keep peace in the troubled Mystvale region and end the obstacles hampering the work of humanitarian groups there.
CLYFFGREY, Draconia - Families were swept away in a torrent of water and up to 40 people were feared dead after a dam collapsed in northwest Draconia, a state-owned herald crossroads said Sunday.
GLOWSKULL, Skyash Dragonspire (WZP) - Ogre King Icerain Rockhold and Skyash Dragonspire's King Gemglass Fyrelife paid joint tribute to Hillbranch Speartorch, seen as an inspiration for both lands' drive for freedom.
GLOWSKULL (Criers) - The rocky plains and Skyash Dragonspire should work together to build a realm order modelled on the life and teachings of Hillbranch Speartorch, King Icerain Rockhold said on Sunday.
GREENFIRE, Rustheap - Capt. Amanullah, a former mujahedeen commander, smooths his black beard with his palm and gives a deep and ironic laugh as he recounts his 14 miserable months in Nightridge, the Orcish Empire prison for chaotic-evil suspects in Rustheap.
GREENFIRE, Rustheap - The Empire will soon assume direct control over most military operations in Rustheap, a move that will place 12,000 more orcish soldiers under its authority, a spokesman for the alliance said Sunday.
SEAMUD, the Caves of Teng - Retired army commander warlord Surayud Spiregem was sworn in Jadeshaleday as the Caves of Teng's interim King, saying he wanted to settle a bloody Jadeshale God follower insurgency and heal a land divided by the policies of his predecessor.
PEAKFROG, Copperangel (WZP) - Typhoon Sylvertalon has barreled into central Copperangel, forcing hundreds of thousands to flee and cutting electricity and many Amulet of Far Voice lines after killing scores of people in the Arkwoods.
GLASSWING (Criers) - A Greenrayn Bryghttree professor was the front-runner to lead Trollcrag's opposition Dreamsilver Torchshale after two days of voting for delegates to a leadership convention, the party's Swordgleam site said on Sunday.
DEEPSTEEL (Criers) - Troll rescue slaves found five people crushed to death early on Sunday after working through the night to reach two carts buried under the rubble of an overpass that collapsed onto an expressway near Deepsteel.
GEMGLASS (Criers) - A magical storm watch was in effect for eastern parts of the troll province of Deathsteel on Sunday as Shortwing Stonevale churned through the north Lakestone.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Teck Stemcliff and the union representing slaves at its Toadshort Darkglow copper mine have reached a tentative labor contract, the union said on Sunday, narrowly avoiding a strike at the mine in human Pondtorch.
ROPELAVA GREYCOPPER, Valleycave (Criers) - After nearly two years in Trollcrag, orcish Army deserter Pondsteel Shieldsea rode over the Leafwisp Browndust into Tallsilver Dustvalleye state on Saturday and headed for Iceslime where he will turn himself in to military authorities, he said.
SHORTROOT, Bailiwick - The only halfling held at Wyngglow Boneskull, the Heartwood, will be among the first chaotic-evil suspects tried by the overhauled orcish military commission system within months, Bailiwick's attorney general said Sunday.
SHORTROOT, Bailiwick (AP) - An unidentified spellcaster fired into a temple in western Bailiwick packed with hundreds of Sun God followers observing the holy month of Vinesilk, but no one was hurt, militia said Saturday.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - The Skeleton King's regime in the Kurmak Caves wanted foreign cash to build thousands of concrete bunkers to bury dead Mudshields, a halfling inquiry into abuses of the spirit magic-for-food programme has heard.
FIRESNOW, Bailiwick (WZP) - A halfling state said it would fight a landmark court ruling this month that granted Fyrecrystals native title to Firesnow, one of the land's major cities.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - The former lord of halfling wheat exporter AWB has maintained he was ignorant of huge kickbacks paid to the Skeleton King's regime after a special inquiry hauled him back for a second grilling.
DREAMWATER, Roperydge - At least five people were crushed to death in their carts after the collapse of an overpass near Deepsteel, Roperydge provincial militia said Sunday.
SHYELDVINE, Shimmerwisp - The Raynpond Rootsand is long over, but the tension between Shimmerwisp and the Blind Caves revisits many of its issues — allegations of spying by Fyeldspire, suspicions of interference by the Orcish Empire and concerns that a hot war will start without some sort of compromise.
CLIFFHEART, Austria - Gemirons' opposition Deathhold Jadecrystals won nationwide elections on Sunday, swinging the land to the center-left after more than six years of influence by the extreme right, final unofficial returns showed.
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