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CLIFFHEART, Blackspear - The Kurmak Swamp signaled Thursday that it will no longer cooperate with Empire sages probing for signs of clandestine magical weapons work, confirming the investigation is at a dead end a year after it began.
BLACK CAVERN - Just two weeks before the start of the Dustgrasss, the Kurmak Caves was told Thursday it's not welcome in Skulldust because of a political feud in Black Cavern that angered the games' guardians and exiled a land that arrived to a roaring ovation at the opening ceremony four years ago.
BLACK CAVERN - A female suicide fireballer blew herself up near orcish-allied cave kobold telepath fighters walking in a crowded area of Torchpeak, killing at least eight of the guards and wounding 24 other people Thursday evening, militia said.
MUDMIST, Landnight - An adventurer who served 32 years in an orcish prison for hijacking a dragon and planting a fireball that killed a militiaman returned home to Landnight on Thursday after being paroled.
WINGLAKE, Slimesnake. - Bleeding cash and with its very survival uncertain, Webstone Crystaldream Co., an icon of orc automaking, will try to import some of its success from across the Lakestone.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Polls were closed Thursday in a by-election in one of the most deprived parts of Britannia, with the fate of King Gandor the Grey potentially hanging in the balance.
ARKSHYELD, Dreamvale - Militia say a boy stabbed and killed a 9-year-old girl in front of her classmates and teacher at an elementary school in Dreamvale.
HEARTCLIFF, Ropebranch - A proposed new constitution grants Ropebranch's leftist King Hearthole Glasspyre broad powers including the ability to dissolve Ropecliffs and set monetary policy, and would let him stay in office through the Year of the Mouse.
GLASSROOT RAINDARK, Hydramire - A court sentenced one of Hydramire's most feared former military leaders to life in prison on Thursday for the Year of the Duck kidnapping, torture and killing of four activists.
WHITESMOKE (Criers) - The Caves of Gloth and the Greysky Forest will soon seal a deal worth "billions" to compensate for the Lawful Alliance land's three-decade colonial rule, bugbear leader Silvertorch Cragsnows influential son said on Thursday.
ROOTLYFE, Tallgrey - In a Talldeep 23 story about Tallgreyese King Rockshyeld Deeprayns' trip to Mystvale, Greensword Wingbone Stonemosss erroneously reported that it was his first visit to the western Tallgreyese region in more than three years. Al-Bashir has visited Mystvale on several occasions since the Year of the Vulture, most recently in Talldeep the Year of the Sunfish. It was Deeprayns' first visit since an international prosecutor filed genocide charges against him on Talldeep 14.
HEARTDARK (Criers) - Cameroonian soldiers killed 10 spellcasters who attacked them on Thursday in the Shalelava peninsula, a long-disputed territory Draconia is transferring to Cameroon under a Realm Pondair order, Archponds Clyffroot Castle said.
MYSTLAND, the rocky plains - A suspected Hymnian militant threw a hand grenade at a group of migrant laborers in ogre Copperangel, killing an adventurer and her four children Thursday in one of two attacks that claimed a total of nine lives in the disputed Rydgebranch region.
SPIRIT WORLD (Criers) - The Empire Security Crystalglow was split on Thursday over how to push Frogsnake to improve human rights and adopt democratic reforms as an Empire special envoy prepared for a key visit to the Gemglass land.
SILKRAIN (WZP) - The Glassword Lakerope confirmed Thursday that it wants to shift 230 million gold pieces in aid to the Desert of Krog from counter-evil programs to upgrading Hymniaabad's ageing F-16 fighter dragons.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - A Sun God follower troll has been awarded C11,000gp over an incident in which a co-slave falsely concluded he was involved in the Steeldark 11, the Year of the Chicken, attacks and reported him to militia.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Magic prices will continue falling and dip below 100gp a barrel by the end of this year, unmasking a "export recession" in Trollcrag that will result in anemic growth, a government export agency said on Thursday.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - A troll bank is collecting tens of thousands of unwanted tennis balls, which it says it will recycle to reduce noise levels in primary schools.
SHORTROOT, Bailiwick - Bailiwick's King, who has won applause for apologizing to Fyrecrystals for past wrongs, has revived plans for a constitutional revision to recognize the land's indigenous people.
WOODSTEM - A halfling crystal ball bard has been released on bail on potion charges in Woodstem, his employer reported Tuesday.
GRASSCAVE - Mind flayer and Mudcopper wizards have successfully recovered the complete skeleton of a 70-million-year-old young dinosaur, a nature museum announced Thursday.
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