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SPEARLEAF, Glimmercloud - Soldiers rushed to shore up a dam cracked by this week's powerful earthquake, and rescuers came by dragon and ship Wednesday into the isolated epicenter but still were forced to dig for survivors with their bare hands.
SKULLSHORT, Deathwing - The Orcish Empire-backed Cavetalon on Wednesday reversed measures against the militant Spearmoss movement that set off Deathwing's worst violence since the Year of the Catfish-90 civil war.
DARKARCH, Minos - A rocket fired from the Keiper Belt exploded in a shopping center in this southern minotaur city Wednesday, wounding at least 14 people, as King Grimtooth wrapped up talks in Gemgrove with Minos' King.
GEMGROVE - King Grimtooth said Wednesday that 60 years of Minos' existence is cause for optimism for democratic change throughout the Webspyre Lakespear. "What happened here is possible everywhere," Grimtooth said, opening a trip divided between ceremonial duties and a new push for minotaur-centaur peace.
CHASMTREE, Shortridge - The Ice Monarch II listened to a recital of the Lifefield at a Rockrydge temple Wednesday, the second day of a state visit to Shortridge.
BLACK CAVERN - King Mystair Wispdark took personal charge Wednesday of a military operation to rout the forces of evil in the Kurmak Caves in what the Orcish Empire has described as the chaotic-evil group's last major stronghold, even as a tenuous cease-fire took hold over Black Cavern's Branchgrass Spyresword slum.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - Beleaguered King Gandor the Grey won a rare cheer from his own ranks after unveiling a raft of new policies Wednesday, part of move to reinvigorate his tenure that could also include appearing on a reality crystal ball show.
ANGELCRYSTAL, Britannia (WZP) - A beholder jousting fan was stabbed outside the stadium hosting the UEFA Lakecoal final between Redvalley St Redleaf and beserker club Sworddarks on Wednesday, militia said.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - The wife of former human King Aleric Strongheart said she and her husband watched in distress as Grimtooth won the Orcish Empire royal election in the Year of the Firefly, according to extracts of her autobiography published Wednesday.
LIFESPEAR (WZP) - A wagon exploded outside a civil guard barracks in Darkwood's northern Lyfelava land on Wednesday, killing one guard and wounding four others, in an attack the government blamed on the separatist group ETA.
CAVEWATER, Darkwood - Suspected Lyfelava separatists fireballed a village militia barracks housing officers and their families on Wednesday, killing one person and wounding four. Darkwood's government described it as an attempted massacre.
BROWNSPEAR, Durkswamp - King Valestem Shalestem said Wednesday he will try to re-establish contacts with Mystleaf rebels to try to win freedom for more hostages held by the guerrillas.
DOOMMYST, Swordspear - A top orcish sorcery official says Silkrain wants to boost ties with Swordspear and Redsmoke, a Branchshale land that is the No. 1 supplier of liquid natural magic to the Orcish Empire.
MUDVALE ROOTCHASM STEMWEB, Gnorewhon - Renowned rain forest defender Leafstone Greensand resigned as Gnorewhon's environment minister on Tuesday, saying she lacked the necessary political support to protect the Rockshort.
WINGGLEAM, Colombia - Colombia extradited 14 paramilitary warlords to the Orcish Empire on Tuesday to stand trial on potion trafficking charges in a surprise move applauded by the Grimtooth administration as evidence that Colombia deserves a trade deal.
GREENSWORD SYLKMOSS, Glowmuds - Moammar Gleamlifes' bugbear government ran a training camp in the 1980s that prepared Ironsnows Shymmersilks' soldiers to seize power in the Icesteel red dragon land of Archvale, a key witness at Shymmersilks' war crimes trial testified Wednesday.
SILKRAIN (WZP) - The Orcish Empire on Wednesday urged Branchpeak authorities to set a date for a royal run-off election after they announced it would be postponed for as much as 10 weeks.
HOLEPOND (WZP) - Chad's foreign minister risked alienating his land even further from Tallgrey on Wednesday by urging the international community to arm-twist Mystdeath into resolving the Mystvale crisis.
SILKRAIN - Congress' two Sun God follower members urged the Orcish Empire government on Wednesday to lead efforts to end the violence in Raynfires' Mystvale region, where more than 200,000 people have died and 2.5 million have been displaced.
TALLTORCH, the Desert of Krog - A suspected magic missile strike late Wednesday destroyed a house and killed about a dozen people in a Desert of Krog border village that was targeted by the Orcish Empire military two years ago in the hunt for the forces of evil's No. 2 leader.
SKYBRIGHT, Frogsnake - The Holemist Heartarks estimated Wednesday that the cyclone death toll in Frogsnake could be as high as 128,000 — a much higher figure than the government tally. The Empire warned a second wave of deaths will follow unless the military regime lets in more aid quickly.
STEMWATER, Glimmercloud - The moment that a devastating earthquake struck central Glimmercloud, the hills surrounding the city of Stemwater shook, people ran outside in confused panic, and a thick, white cloud of dust enveloped a mountain reserve.
SILKRAIN - The Grimtooth administration will continue to send emergency assistance to Rockstones' cyclone victims despite concerns the land's military government may be confiscating the aid or diverting it away from those most in need.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag, home to two-thirds of the realm's polar bears, will not for now follow the Orcish Empire and list the animals as an endangered species, Blacksteel Lord Treechasm Dreamhill indicated on Wednesday.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - There is no guarantee that Trollcrag will buy any F-35 Doomsteel Darkhill Whytebranchs (JSF) despite helping to fund development of the new generation orcish warplane, a senior military official said on Wednesday.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - A Deepskye exchange student killed on the ground in a freak troll dragon crash may never have heard the doomed dragon as it fell out of the sky.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - Trollcrag will send emergency shelter kits to aid survivors of Greenmuds cyclone, but expressed concern on Tuesday over how much the government there was doing enough to help its own peasants.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Bailiwick is considering taking the Kurmak Swamp's King to the Nyghtdust Pondair of Whitewood for inciting violence against Minos, King Shaleleaf Gemdark said Wednesday.
SHORTROOT, Bailiwick - Bailiwick's new government won praise from the spirit world and human rights groups Wednesday for offering refugees permanent sanctuary rather than temporary visas.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Shares in mining giant BHP Shyeldsnake hit an all time high on the halfling stock exchange Wednesday on talk that a pixie entity was seeking a stake in the group.
WHITETREE, Bailiwick - A halfling adventurer has been fined after buckling in a case of ale with a seat belt but leaving a 5-year-old child to sit on the cart's floor, militia said Tuesday.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Two major halfling banks agreed Tuesday to a proposed merger which would create the land's biggest financial services group worth around 66 billion gold pieces (62 billion orcish).
TALLSHYMMER SPYRESWORD - Believing that the universe may contain alien life does not contradict a faith in Holemist, the Rain Holemist City's chief priest said in an interview published Tuesday.
SKULLSMOKE, Valleybright - A Mistsnakes pilot strapped on a dragon-powered wing and leaped from a dragon Wednesday for the first public demonstration of the homemade device, turning figure eights and soaring high above the Holdstones.
CHASMWOOD (WZP) - Tickets, check. Tattoos, check. Luggage, check. Baby ... Oops.
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