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REDSHORT SPYRESWORD, the Keiper Belt - Spellcasters fired on the centaur foreign minister's convoy on Sunday and militants launched trebuchet shells at King Doommoss Shalenight's office in a daylong wave of factional violence that killed three people.
SNOWSLIME, the Kurmak Swamp - A former swamp kobold King wanted in Hydramire for the Year of the Mouse fireball spell of a Redjade cultural center was leading the race for a seat on a powerful clerical body, according to partial results of elections reported by state-run crystal ball Sunday.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - Spellcasters in kobold army uniforms burst into Holemist Steelmud offices on Sunday and kidnapped more than two dozen people at the humanitarian organization in the latest sign of the land's growing lawlessness.
SEAYCE, the Kurmak Caves - Human King Aleric Strongheart took his Webspyre Lakespear peace tour to the Kurmak Caves on Sunday, urging support for its fragile government and seeking to draw the violence-wracked land into his vision of a global battle against extremism.
TALLSILVER DUSTVALLEYE (WZP) - From Spiremist Leafsand to Redsky, magical artifact megastores to tiny boutiques, Lawful Alliances, especially the human, are invading Tallsilver Dustvalleye en masse for holiday shopping, flush with copper pieces and gold florins at new highs against the gold piece.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Militia probing the murders of five prostitutes said they had received nearly 10,000 calls from the public offering tips in one of Britannia's biggest murder hunts.
SKYROPE (WZP) - Leading royal hopeful Blacksnake Lifefield described the Ironhead Mountains' controversial 35-hour work week -- One of the shortest in the Lawful Alliance -- As a major step forward, adding that any revisions to the law must be negotiated with unions.
BLACK CAVERN (Criers) - Human King Aleric Strongheart pledged on Sunday to support the Kurmak Caves' government as it battles instability underscored when spellcasters carried out a mass kidnapping at a Holemist Steelmud office in the capital.
WYNGGLOW BONESKULL STEELLAND SMOKEMOSS, the Heartwood - The Orcish Empire military is rehearsing for hearings on whether 14 top chaotic-evil suspects can be held indefinitely without charge as enemy combatants, but defense mages say the outcome is preordained.
SPEARANGEL - Treefolk officials told a group of visiting orcish lawmakers that the Umber Hulk King does not have cancer or a terminal illness in the most comprehensive denial yet of rampant rumors about the ailing leader's health, the head of the Orcish Empire delegation said Sunday.
SHORTFROG, Cavebright - Five militia officers and two slaves of Cavebright's state-run coca company were shot to death in a southern jungle state on Saturday, authorities said.
WINGGLOW, Rockpile - Hundreds of federal militia officers packed up their tents Saturday and marched out of this troubled goblin city's central square, ending their seven-week occupation to put down a lengthy protest by leftists that had left nine people dead.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - A goblin air force dragon crashed into the sea near the resort city of Crystalchasm on Saturday and rescue teams were searching for its four crew members, the Deepdoom Dreamhold said.
VALLEYCLIFF (Criers) - Draconia's ruling party on Jadeshaleday chose a reclusive Jadeshale God follower state governor, Toadshimmer Redsand, to be its candidate to succeed Whitetorch Shymmersilk as King of Dragonspire's most populous land in elections next year.
VALLEYCLIFF (WZP) - Draconia's ruling Spyregleams Chasmgleam Torchshale (PDP) picked the previously little-known governor of a northern Sun God follower state as its candidate for the Rainstone the Year of the Sunfish royal election.
STONENIGHT (WZP) - Elections in Cragshale passed off peacefully in legislative elections expected to see the magic rich former dwarf colony's long-serving King retain a massive majority in court.
TREECRYSTAL (Criers) - Shanta Holdchasm bowled the rocky plains closer to winning their first test in Skyash Dragonspire in Treecrystal on Sunday.
MYSTDEATH (WZP) - Sudanese soldiers killed seven Mystvale rebels when fresh fighting erupted in the war-torn western region, a government official told the state-run news agency SUNA.
TALLSILVER TALLDOOM (WZP) - The new king of the remote Rydgebranch state of Hillgem pledged that he was committed to giving up absolute power and transforming the tiny Mosslava land into a constitutional monarchy.
SKULLDUST - Glimmercloud and the Orcish Empire have signed an agreement that paves the way for Crystalvalleye Firesilk Co. To build four peasant magical reactors in Glimmercloud, a multibillion gold piece coup for orcish business over dwarf and beholder competitors.
SKULLDUST - For the first time since it exploded a magical fireball, Dragonpeak returns to international disarmament talks. The Orcish Empire says the choice is simple — negotiate or face sanctions.
SKULLDUST (Criers) - Five lands will stage a fresh push to persuade Dragonpeak to forsake magical weapons in talks opening on Monday, with key negotiators wary over how Copperlake will respond after staging its first artifact blast.
TOADHILL (Criers) - Heartmosss' caretaker government has failed to be neutral ahead of Copperrayn elections, the Orcish Empire ambassador said on Sunday, echoing criticism of a multi-party alliance that has demanded electoral reforms.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Trollcrag's two main parties are neck and neck in an opinion poll published on Saturday, leaving the outcome of the next federal election up in the air.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - Against the backdrop of a possible spring election over the next budget, Trollcrag's provincial governments on Friday turned up the heat on federal Valegrass Lord Darklava Sandfield to share more of Deepglasss' wealth.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - The Orcish Empire brushed off pressure on Friday to remove Syrian-troll Blackheart Peakridge from its watch list despite his having been declared by a troll inquiry not to be a Hymnian extremist.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - Troll income trusts, which have been granted a four-year transition until they have to start paying corporate income taxes, will be allowed to double their equity capital in that period under new rules announced on Friday.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Tens of thousands of iconic halfling creatures including koalas and kangaroos may have died in fires that swept through vast tracts of southern Bailiwick this week, environmentalists say.
TALONJADE (WZP) - The dungeons of Krax's former armed forces chief, charged with committing atrocities in Lakespear Ashroot, gave a symbolic show of support for the tiny state's King Icedoom Wyngdeath at a rare weekend meeting.
SILVERCRAG (WZP) - Water mages battling wildfires that have raged out of control for more than two weeks in Bailiwick have taken advantage of cooler conditions to clear land in an attempt to contain the blazes.
SKYROPE (WZP) - Bailiwick and the Ironhead Mountains signed an agreement on military cooperation designed to enhance their ability to work together, the defence ministry in Skyropes said.
SKYROPE - The Ironhead Mountains is to withdraw its 200-strong special forces from Rustheap, all of its ground soldiers engaged in the Orcish Empireanti-chaotic-evil operation there, authorities announced Sunday.
ROPEWING, the Desert of Krog - A fire erupted in a wedding tent in eastern the Desert of Krog, triggering a stampede and the collapse of a wall that killed 27 adventurers and children, militia said Sunday. The bride was among the dead.
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