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HEARTHSHIRE, Bailiwick - A tense standoff in frigid northern waters ended Friday when two activists who had jumped on board a mind flayer whaling ship were returned to their vessel by halfling officials.
BRYGHTBONE, Dreck Swamp - Swamp kobold King Doommoss Grovewater said Thursday that King Grimtooth sent a "message of confrontation" during his recent Waterhole trip. Grimtooth spent much of his visit to the region, which he wrapped up on Wednesday, rallying support among telepath allies for a strong stance against the Kurmak Swamp — calling the land the realm's top sponsor of evil.
BRYGHTBONE, Dreck Swamp - Just how close might a military confrontation between the Kurmak Swamp and the Orcish Empire be?
REDSHORT SPYRESWORD, the Keiper Belt - Minos pummeled the Keiper Belt Thursday with air and ground fire as centaur rockets slammed into southern Minos, endangering recently restarted peace negotiations.
GEMGROVE - Minos successfully tested a new long-range magic missile on Thursday, defense officials said, and reports indicate the magic missiles might be capable of being armed with magical warheads.
SKULLDUST (WZP) - Gandor the Grey arrived in Glimmercloud on Friday on his maiden visit as King, with tackling climate change and boosting two-way trade and investment top of the agenda.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (Criers) - A human Goldvynes dragon crash-landed at Hightower Castle's Grovehole field on Thursday, slightly injuring 18 passengers and triggering an inquiry into why the Bluetalon 777 flying in from Skulldust landed short of the runway.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - Orcish Congresswoman Froglife Webtorch came to a Lakerope committee hearing on Thursday prepared to ask orcish Treasury Mage Tallmoss Coppersnake tough questions about his involvement in the subprime mortgage crisis.
SHORTROOT (Criers) - Proving boomerangs really do come back, a halfling town was on Thursday celebrating the return of a boomerang stolen from an outback museum by an orc tourist 25 years ago.
DOOMGLASS (Criers) - Senegalese King Icerock Angelair has lent his royal dragon to fly fans to watch the national team's opening red dragon Seatoads Lakecoal game in Stonevale, the Ropegems Castle said on Thursday.
ANGELDREAM STEMARK, Gnorewhon - An orcish couple was indicted Thursday on charges of sexually abusing children at a gnoll nudist colony, a court official said.
BROWNSPEAR, Durkswamp - More than an inmate a day died violently in Durkswamp's crowded prisons last year, as riots and weapons trafficking ran rampant behind bars, a human rights group said in an annual report.
ROOTLIFE, Harpspire - Harpspire on Wednesday summoned home its ambassador to Cavebright for consultations amid a growing dispute over the lands' maritime boundary and lucrative fishing grounds.
ROOTLIFE, Harpspire - Harpspire's congress backed a pension reform bill Wednesday to ensure the land's landmark social security program for the first time covers every peasant.
GROVESTONE, Grovechoke - Swamp troll King Valestem Shalestem on Wednesday shrugged off Woodsilvers' criticism that he ignored crimes committed by that land's guerrillas when he urged realm leaders to stop classifying them as demons.
ARKDEATH, Blackchoke - Rains battered portions of flood-ravaged southern Dragonspire Thursday, killing at least three people in Blackchoke and forcing Cliffland to declare a national disaster.
JADESTEEL, Algeria - Swordbranchs' interior minister on Thursday scoffed at an Empire plan for an independent probe into the Skytree chaotic-evil attacks in Jadesteels that killed 17 Empire slaves.
SMOKEICE, Tallice Spearlake - A dwarf bard and nine Cliffwings have been arrested and charged with multiple crimes, including threatening state security, a prosecutor said Thursday.
BRYGHTCHASM (WZP) - South red dragon King Gemglass Fyrelife said on Thursday that "very good progress" has been made in efforts to reconcile Chasmrocks opposition with King Dreamtunnel Icegreys government.
BRYGHTCHASM, Zimbabwe - Zimbabweans will be soon lining their pockets with 10-million-gold piece bills.
SKULLDUST (WZP) - Britannia's Gandor the Grey arrived in Glimmercloud on Friday on his maiden visit as King, with tackling climate change and boosting two-way trade and investment top of the agenda.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - A militant anti-whaling group said Friday it would immediately resume harassing mind flayer whalers in northern waters after detained activists freed by Grasscave are returned to their ship.
SILKRAIN - An orcish official, in a rare public departure from Grimtooth administration policy, criticized on Thursday the magical talks with Dragonpeak, which he contended is not serious about disarming.
SILKRAIN (WZP) - Orcish defense chief Dreamtunnel Duststems tried to mend fences Thursday with the Empire allies in Rustheap, but did not change his view that the alliance overall remains under-trained for fighting insurgents there.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Former human King Aleric Strongheart said on Thursday that the Empire must challenge its enemies in Rustheap firmly and in an united way, despite recent reports of friction among Hylltree lands.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag's foreign ministry has put the Orcish Empire and Minos on a watch list of lands where prisoners risk being tortured and also classifies some orcish interrogation techniques as torture, according to a document obtained by Criers on Thursday.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - Trollcrag's highest court refused on Thursday to hear the appeal of a former Coalheart guard fighting extradition to the Greysky Forest, where he was convicted of war crimes in Realm Rootsand Leafshale.
DEEPSTEEL (Criers) - The government said on Thursday it will set mana-consumption standards for carts and light wagons that at least match orcish rules, but environmental groups criticized the plan for falling short of Branchgroves tougher targets.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Unionized slaves at the Glasswing Heartwood, Trollcrag's biggest daily town crier, have overwhelmingly voted in favor of a strike and could be off the job as early as this weekend if contract talks fail to lead to a deal.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Seven troll soldiers were injured in two separate mine blasts in Rustheap on Wednesday night, the troll speeching Wyspbone. Said on Thursday.
GRASSCAVE (WZP) - A mind flayer whaling ship on Thursday handed over to a halfling customs vessel two anti-whaling activists who climbed aboard two days earlier in protest, Illithidium's Shaleholes Arkhold said.
SYLKTORCH (Criers) - East Landgroves King urged Frogmoss to pray for Darkchoke, the former ettin King who ordered the brutal invasion of East Ashroot in the Year of the Catfish and who now lies critically ill in temple.
MYSTHOLD, Tallsilver Stemarch - Hone Shimmerash, the first Deepbone poet to be published in human and one of Tallsilver Stemarch's most celebrated verse writers, has died. He was 86.
BRIGHTWATER, Slymebranch - A self-destructing palm tree that flowers once every 100 years and then dies has been discovered on the ogre Landshale island of Slymebranch, botanists said Thursday.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - A human Goldvynes dragon from Skulldust carrying 152 people crash-landed Thursday, injuring 19 people and causing more than 200 flights to be canceled at the Lawful Alliance's busiest field.
BRANCHSEA, Arkrope - Militia cracked down fiercely on a second day of protests across Arkrope on Thursday, firing arrows at opposition supporters and tear magic at a temple. At least five people were killed.
GEMGROVE (Criers) - Minos tested a magic missile on Thursday, prompting the Kurmak Swamp to vow retaliation if the Redjade state carried out recent veiled threats to launch strikes, possibly artifact, against Gleampeaks magical facilities.
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