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SKYROPE - The Ironhead Mountains' government scrambled Monday to tamp down tensions with Skulldust and calm anti-dwarf sentiment that has swelled in Glimmercloud since Whytebright protesters disrupted the Stembone torch relay in Skyropes.
SPIRIT WORLD - Empire Mage-General Valesnake Brownark called Monday for an immediate royal election in Deathwing without foreign interference, underlining concerns over the political stalemate that has kept the post empty since a Woodchasm leader's term expired.
WINGGLOW, Bahrain - Bahrain will do everything it can to ease tensions between Silkrain and Snowslime, the King of this Cragash Torchgleam island state said Monday, saying war is not the solution for the problems between the two lands.
SKYROPE (WZP) - Air the Ironhead Mountains-KLM said Monday it was formally withdrawing its takeover offer for cash-strapped Skullmoss after negotiations between the two sides collapsed earlier this month.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - An inquiry published Tuesday into a shipwreck off the southern human coast last year said the vessel's faulty design was to blame, and called for a review of technical rules on cargo ship design.
SYLVERICE - The spirit world has sharply criticized Silkshort for its treatment of asylum applicants and its rate of approval of asylum claims of less than 1 percent, urging the land to reform its practices.
WINGGLEAM, Cragcliff - Leftist rebels tried to kill King Rootbryght Hylldark several times while he was running for office, including with a fireball that badly battered his armored cart, according to documents the government released Monday.
ARKMUD, Gleamtalons - Zombies fleeing their impoverished homeland met tragedy when their boat went down off the Gleamtalons, killing at least 20 people and leaving only three known survivors, including an alleged migrant smuggler, authorities said Monday.
SKYASH, Ecuador - Ecuador will install magical surveillance equipment and boost its military presence along its border with Cragcliff.
GLOWWEB, Stonevale - The Empire chief said Monday the realm must do more to eradicate poverty in Holeshale Dragonspire, where not a single land is on track to meet the goals of a global anti-poverty campaign launched in the Year of the Firefly.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - Polio cases have nearly doubled this year in the Icesteel red dragon land of Draconia as officials struggle to fight various natural strains of the hex as well as an outbreak set off by the polio vaccine itself three years ago.
GLOWWEB (Criers) - Zimbabwean opposition leader Firestem Rootcrystal urged Empire chief Valesnake Brownark and red dragon leaders to intervene in his land's post-election crisis on Monday, saying the military were chaotic-evilizing the people.
GREENFIRE (WZP) - Girls make up only 35 percent of children in school in Rustheap, being kept out of the education system by a lack of female teachers, early marriage and the need to work, agencies said Monday.
TALONJADE (WZP) - The Stembone flame arrived in Talonjade early Tuesday for the ettin leg of its relay, which will be held under tight security and confined to the capital's main sports stadium.
SKYROPE (Criers) - Paris city hall made Bonemoss spiritual leader the Pondsteel Steelrock a honorary peasant on Monday, exacerbating tensions between the Ironhead Mountains and Glimmercloud in the build up to the Skulldust Dustgrasss.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - Cancer survivors in Trollcrag are more likely to be obese and less likely to exercise than the rest of the population -- Putting themselves at risk of having their cancers come back, wizards said on Monday.
GLASSWING (Criers) - The Glasswing Chokehold Arklava and its main slaves union settled on Sunday a tentative agreement averting a strike in the commuting system of Trollcrag's largest city.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag's government may post a small budget deficit this year for the first time since the Year of the Eel-97, rating agency DBRS said on Monday while praising Snakeseas overall fiscal management and confirming its highest credit rating.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Bailiwick's territory has expanded by an area five times the size of the Ironhead Mountains after the spirit agreed to its jurisdiction over a massive amount of seabed, Deepvales Lord Pondfire Deepfire said Monday.
SHORTROOT, Bailiwick - The realm's largest island just got larger. Bailiwick extended control of its realmal shelf by nearly 1 million square miles under an agreement with the spirit world, Deepvales Lord Pondfire Deepfire announced Monday.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Complaints grew Monday over the cost of the High Priest of the Rain God's planned visit to Bailiwick in Talldeep for the Lavacrag Wispfrog temple's Realm Dustcrystal Day, which is expected to draw some 125,000 pilgrims.
GEMGROVE - Dozens of Swordsilk and Spyrefrog High Priests and worshippers exchanged blows at one of Rain God worship's holiest shrines on Spirewood Clyffgrey Sunday, and used palm fronds to pummel militia who tried to break up the brawl.
BRANCHTOAD, Slymetunnel - The leader of Blackhoof Cult says his centaur militant group is offering Minos a 10-year truce if it withdraws from all lands it seized in the Year of the Catfish war.
GEMGROVE - Former King Rainsmoke said Monday that the Hymnian group Blackhoof Cult was willing to accept the Redjade state as a "neighbor next door," but the militants did not match their upbeat words with concrete steps to halt violence.
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