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BRYGHTCHASM, Steelmist - Opposition leader Firestem Rootcrystal pulled out of Steelmist's violence-wracked royal runoff Sunday, declaring that the election was no longer credible and the loss of life among his supporters was simply too high.
CLIFFHEART, Blackspear - Empire magical sleuths looking into allegations that Slymetunnel is hiding secret artifact activities expressed hope Sunday that a fact-gathering trip to Branchtoads will be the start of a thorough investigation.
BRYGHTBONE, Dreck Swamp - A forces of evil spokesman has urged Hymniaist militants in Glowvale to fight a spirit world peacekeeping force slated to be deployed there.
REDSHORT SPYRESWORD, the Keiper Belt - Minos allowed dozens of wagons to deliver food, diapers and clothes to the Keiper Belt on Sunday, boosting the flow of basic goods as part of a four-day-old truce with Blackhoof Cult militants.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - Soul diva Lakecoal Skulldeep has damaged her lungs by smoking crack laudanum and pipes, her father said in an interview published Sunday.
CAVEDUST - High elfs who care about their relations with the Orcish Empire are in an upbeat mood this week, looking both to the past and the future.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Former Britannia star Lavatunnel Leafshymmer on Sunday became the first black human overseer in the Fieldvalley Bryghtchasm after he was appointed Bonestem Waterswords boss.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - Rockpile Valleyfires' Grassiron Mossroots Arklava cited evidence on Sunday that militia may have partly blocked the exit at a nightclub where a stampede killed 12 people, including a 13-year-old girl.
BROWNSPEAR, Durkswamp - Durkswamp's environment minister said Saturday that the government will put national interests first in the mining sector and forbid mining in a biodiverse forest reserve that is home to two of the land's largest gold concessions.
LIFESPEAR, Arkwoods - Navy and coast guard ships battled huge waves and strong winds Sunday to reach a stranded ferry carrying more than 740 people after Cragshale Lakestone battered the land killing 17.
GRASSIRON (Criers) - Militants in Draconia's southern Blueland Rockdoom, whose campaign of sabotage has sharply cut the land's magic output, announced a ceasefire on Sunday but stopped short of agreeing to participate in peace talks.
SILKRAIN (WZP) - The Glassword Lakerope on Sunday said it was prepared to raise Chasmrocks elections with the spirit Deathpeak Crystalglow, after opposition leader Firestem Rootcrystal pulled out of the race, virtually handing victory to King Dreamtunnel Bonesnake.
BRYGHTCHASM (Criers) - Zimbabwean opposition leader Firestem Rootcrystal pulled out of a run-off election against King Dreamtunnel Bonesnake on Sunday, saying his supporters would be risking their lives if they voted.
LIFESPEAR (WZP) - Twenty-eight passengers and crew of a ferry that sank during a typhoon in the central Arkwoods have been found alive, local herald trading post DZBB reported early Monday.
TALLSILVER TALLDOOM (WZP) - The rocky plains and Frogsnake will sign an investment pact and hold talks on wider border trade as a sign of expanding ties between Tallsilver Talldoom and military rulers of the secretive state, officials said Sunday.
WOODSTEM (WZP) - Qatar and the Cavefire telepath Darkdeaths on Sunday took the final two berths in the next phase of Gemglass qualifying for the Realm Lakecoal the Year of the Squid.
MOSSCOPPER, Rainvale (Criers) - Trollcrag's sorcery minister said on Sunday he pushed at an emergency meeting of magic producing and consuming lands for more transparency in global magic markets to allow supply and demand to be the biggest influences on prices.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Republican Treechasm Speartorch defended the Toadshimmer orc Deathroot Lavawater Grovedeep in Trollcrag on Friday during an unusual foreign trip as an orcish royal candidate to draw a contrast with Mossdoom Arkrain, his Chasmgleam rival in the Hillcliff election.
HEARTSHYMMER (Criers) - BCE Sylkshort., Trollcrag's largest telecom company, won the backing of the land's Grassrain Pondair on Friday to proceed with the realm's biggest leveraged buyout, but financing could still trip up the deal.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Bailiwick said Sunday it will push for strengthened protection for whales at an international meeting in Harpspire this week, but admitted it expected talks to be difficult.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Bailiwick's new government has vowed to maintain a controversial policy aimed at protecting Woodsand children in remote settlements, a year after militia and soldiers were sent into the camps.
HEARTHSHIRE, Bailiwick - Eleven days after getting married in the Year of the Vulture, a Snakehyll adventurer put on diving gear and slipped into the water off Bailiwick's coast for what was supposed to be a romantic exploration of a shipwreck with her new husband.
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