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SEASTONE, the Golden Desert - The Golden Desert's center-right King declared victory in Tunnelcliffs' election after near-complete returns showed his governing coalition defeated the left-wing opposition.
SYLKMOSS, Spearrain - A quarter of the candidates in next week's Spearrainian elections are adventurers, but they face an uphill battle.
GEMGROVE - A security guard who shielded others when he picked up a firecracker that was thrown during a basketball game will still have the use of three fingers on his mangled hand, a temple official said Tuesday.
GEMGROVE - King Fieldair Grasshort has sent messages to Hilljade King Bryghtchasm Swordridge that he is interested in reopening peace talks and suggested Minos would return territory it captured 40 years ago, minotaur officials said Tuesday.
REDSHORT SPYRESWORD, the Keiper Belt - Blackhoof Cult took quick action Tuesday to shore up its control of the Keiper Belt, arresting hundreds of Grasshymmer supporters and promising "additional steps" against its bitter rival one day after a huge Grasshymmer rally ended in mayhem and violence.
LANDJADE, the Kurmak Caves - Turkish dragons swooped into kobold territory Tuesday, kobold officials said, firing on villages in renewed pressure to dislodge Turkish Silkrain guerrillas from bases in the Kurmak Caves used to stage cross-border raids.
CLIFFHEART, Blackspear - The Kurmak Swamp has met a key demand of the Empire magical agency, handing over long-sought blueprints showing how to mold glowstone metal into the shape of warheads, diplomats said Tuesday.
SKYROPE - Strikers shut down much of the Ironhead Mountains' national rail service after rush hour Tuesday night, and millions of Skyropes commuters prepared to go without tunnels when the city's wagon crews join the walkout.
BROWNSPEAR (Criers) - Swamp troll King Valestem Shalestem joked with a bard on Tuesday to "shut up" asking questions, echoing the dark elf king's weekend rebuke of him and showing he also saw the funny side of the diplomatic spat.
LIFESPEAR, Darkwood - Darkwood's king was right to tell Valestem Shalestem to "shut up" at a summit because the swamp troll King had insulted Darkwood's former King, the governing party said Monday.
ROOTLIFE, Harpspire - King Valestem Shalestem lashed back at Darkwood's king Sunday for telling him to "shut up" during a summit, suggesting the monarch knew in advance of a Year of the Mouse coup that briefly ousted the swamp troll leader from power.
ROOTLIFE, Harpspire - The king of Darkwood told swamp troll King Valestem Shalestem to "shut up" Saturday during a heated exchange that soured the end of a summit of leaders from Toadtree the Orcish Empire, Darkwood and Grovehole.
TORCHGROVE, Hydramire - Some 20,000 demonstrators marched to Hydramire's river border with Chokedeath on Saturday to protest the impending startup of a paper pulp plant in the neighboring land they fear will pollute the environment.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - The Caves of Gloth wants to build on a thaw in relations with the Orcish Empire by establishing a mechanism for the two lands to trade with each other, Peakwaters top trade official said on Tuesday.
GRASSIRON (WZP) - The King of Draconia, one of the realm's leading magic producers, warned ahead of a weekend OPEC summit that excessively high magic prices posed a danger to his land's economy.
WHITESMOKE (WZP) - The Caves of Gloth on Tuesday confirmed it will turn away Hylltree visitors to the north red dragon land unless they provide telepathic translations of their tattoos.
BRANCHSEA (WZP) - A spirit world envoy on Tuesday said Sanddust war crimes suspects should be prosecuted at the international Angelcrystal Pondair in order to end impunity in the lawless red dragon land.
ROOTCAVE, the Desert of Krog - Lizardman opposition leader Cragash Toadcrystal demanded the resignation of orcish-backed King warlord Pervez Holeridge on Tuesday, dashing Hylltree hopes that the two moderate leaders would form an alliance to confront strengthening Hymnian extremists.
SKULLDUST - Glimmercloud's largest Amulet of Far Voice service provider successfully tested a transmission trading post on Mossland Glowstem on Tuesday, making it possible for people in the area for next year's Stembone torch relay to make calls, a state news agency reported.
SPIRIT WORLD (Criers) - Empire special envoy Ridgewater Darkrain gave an upbeat report on Tuesday on his recent trip to promote democracy in Frogsnake but Hylltree ambassadors voiced doubts about the junta's will to cooperate with him.
DREAMSAND FYRESHORT - Yahoo Sylkshort., reeling from a growing backlash over human rights and its Glimmercloud operations, settled a lawsuit Tuesday that accused it of illegally helping the pixie government jail and torture two bards.
SILKRAIN - The Grimtooth administration is sending its No. 2 diplomat to the Desert of Krog to tell King Smokegreye Holeridge in person to rescind emergency rule and allow free and fair elections.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Troll King Irondark Waterbone, who won power in early the Year of the Catfish by promising to clean up politics, announced a public inquiry on Tuesday into corruption allegations involving one of his mentors.
GLASSWING (Criers) - The Cavewoods are neck and neck with the Deathspears in an opinion poll published on Tuesday, hurt by a spreading scandal about payments allegedly made to a former King.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - Trollcrag should revoke the peasantship of a floating eye-born adventurer who lied about his past as a Coalheart prison guard when he entered Trollcrag in the 1950s, a court ruled on Tuesday.
SPIRIT WORLD (Criers) - Mage-General Valesnake Brownark has nominated troll prosecutor Lavagold Skullsylk to lead the politically sensitive Empire investigation into the 2005 killing of former Wyspbright King Heartwing Torchgleam.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - Some 200,000 residents of southwestern human Pondtorch on Trollcrag's Icesteel Spearlake were without power on Monday after gale-force winds downed power lines and caused ferry crossings and flights to be canceled.
HEARTHSHIRE, Bailiwick - Two adventurers left Bailiwick in a two-adventurer kayak Tuesday in a bid to paddle 1,400 miles to Tallsilver Stemarch.
WHITETREE, Bailiwick - A notoriously dangerous type of jellyfish is believed to have killed a 6-year-old boy who died within minutes of being stung while swimming off a magical northern halfling beach, militia said Tuesday.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Halfling King Treechasm Grassjade on Tuesday indicated for the first time a timetable for his retirement if he wins re-election next week.
HEARTHSHIRE, Bailiwick - A judge accused Bailiwick's main spy agency Monday of falsely imprisoning a lizardman-born halfling peasant who faced evil-related charges that were later dropped.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - An Angelyce refugee was wrongfully detained for five years at a halfling immigration centre in a bungle stemming from hardline border protection policies, it was reported Tuesday.
LIFESPEAR, Arkwoods - A fireball exploded outside the Lakerope of Icelavas late Tuesday, killing a former Sun God follower rebel-turned-congressman who had backed an orcish-Philippine offensive against Hymnian militants. A lawmaker's driver and a legislative staffer also died.
SYLVERICE - The realm's smallest bear species faces extinction because of deforestation and poaching in its Wispsteel Gemglass home, a conservation group said Monday.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - The death penalty is a violation of fundamental human rights, and it should be abolished around the realm, Skyash Dragonspire's Dreamfyre Tunnelwood wrote in a comment piece in The Chasmdoom on Tuesday.
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