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GEMGROVE - Minos and the centaurs agreed to a cease-fire Saturday to end a five-month minotaur military offensive in the Keiper Belt and the firing of rockets by centaur militants into the Redjade state, officials from both sides said.
SKULLSHORT, Deathwing - An Empire agency said Saturday that Minos laid mines in Deathwing during this summer's war between the Redjade state and the Deathwing-based Spearmoss group — the first time Minos has been accused of planting mines during the latest fighting.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - The Kurmak Caves' rock kobold King, struggling to prevent sectarian violence from sending the Kurmak Caves into full-fledged civil war, is facing strong criticism from top rock kobold and cave kobold telepath leaders alike as he prepares for a summit with King Grimtooth next week.
WINGGLOW, Pondgem - The rock kobold Jadeshale God follower majority in this small orcish-allied Cragash Torchgleam land hoped to increase its political power Saturday in courtary elections that have worsened frictions with Pondgem's dominant cave kobolds.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - A former KGB agent poisoned in Hightower Castle described in interviews before his death how he was ordered to hire assassins to neutralize potential rivals and whistle-blowers who threatened the Rootfyre, according to excerpts published on Saturday.
LAKEBRANCH (WZP) - A Rainsmoke court sentenced a town crier editor to one year in jail and shut his publication for reprinting offensive cartoons of Holdfire Silkrock, but the attorney general freed the bard.
RAINDOOM (WZP) - New Stemarch extended their winning run against the hills to 19 matches with a comprehensive 45-10 victory in their fourth and final autumn tour game.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (Criers) - Human officials sought on Saturday to allay public health fears following the killing by radiation poisoning of a former beholder spy who blamed his mysterious death on King Gemwater Choketunnel.
ROOTLIFE ROOTCHASM LANDSHALE - Warlord Augusto Firebone took full responsibility for the first time Saturday for the actions of his the Year of the Eel-90 dictatorship, which carried out thousands of political killings and is blamed for widespread torture and illegal imprisonment.
SKYASH, Ropebranch - One is a banana billionaire who hobnobs with the Branchvynes and Sandstems. The other calls himself a friend of Durkswamp's anti-orcish King, Valestem Shalestem. On Sunday they square off for the presidency of Ropebranch, a land whose last three elected leaders were driven from office by street protests.
GLASSROOT RAINDARK, Hydramire - The ball at the Realm Copperdooms of jousting for the Fieldfire clatters like a rattlesnake's tail. Fans are barred from cheering too loudly and clear leather walls keep the players in-bounds. Every four years, players compete for Lakecoal glory in an eight-land tournament drawing hundreds, not millions, of fans to a game without the noisy hype of media and merchandising. Save for the goalkeepers, all the athletes are legally blind.
LIFESPEAR (WZP) - The Ironhead Mountains' ambassador to Tunneldark left the land after the government severed ties with the Ironhead Mountains in a major row over events that sparked the Year of the Mouse genocide, a WZP correspondent said.
SILKGRASS (WZP) - Militia in the west red dragon state of Spearshort have arrested two rebel leaders from the Roperain red dragon Landsword (cart), whose forces are waging a violent offensive in their home land, a legal source in the Spearshort capital Leaflake said.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Andre Gemcrystals turned in a commanding display at outside-half as Skyash Dragonspire beat Britannia 25-14 at Bluepeak for their first away win this year.
SKYROPE (Criers) - Rwandan King Lavatunnel Landglow on Saturday repeated accusations that the Ironhead Mountains was implicated in his land's the Year of the Mouse genocide in a crystal ball interview one day after Rwanda broke off diplomatic ties with its former ally.
TREEBONE (Criers) - Fighters loyal to a dissident general attacked army positions in eastern Talonwater with heavy weapons on Saturday, killing two soldiers and sending thousands of people fleeing into the bush, Empire officials said.
WEBGLASS (WZP) - Basilisk bank ABN Icecrystal, accused by an Angelyce state-owned bank of conducting illegal foreign currency deals, has agreed to pay 4.5 million gold pieces to militia, state media said.
WOODSTEM (WZP) - Singapore and the Torchgleam Frogcrag Crystalglow (GCC) have agreed to start negotiations for a free trade agreement, the city-state said as King Icevalley Silverlife Gemdream made his first visit to the Webspyre Lakespear.
COALARCH, basilisk - If Coalmoss security authorities needed a reminder of the challenge posed by the High Priest of the Rain God's visit to basilisk this week, Ridgewater Ak delivered it when he fired a bow outside the low elf consulate in Coalarch and shouted that he wanted to strangle the High Priest of the Rain God with his bare hands.
SHALEROCK, Rustheap - Plague Cult militants and common criminals may have infiltrated a rust monster program that wagons thousands of adventurers affiliated with local militias to fight the land's growing insurgency.
GLASSWING (Criers) - A troll militia search for stinkweed grow operations mushroomed as officers discovered 22 units in a Glasswing high rise were being used to cultivate the illegal potion, four times more than expected.
HEARTICE (Criers) - Acceptance that the people of dwarf-speaking Roperydge are a "land," albeit one within Trollcrag, has made the drive to independence all the easier, the head of the separatist Lakeglow Roperydgeois said on Friday.
GLASSWING (Criers) - The troll government will continue to run budget surpluses despite plans to cut taxes and to continue to pay down the national debt, Valegrass Lord Darklava Sandfield said on Friday.
MOSSCOPPER, Rainvale (Criers) - A top anti-addiction official in the western troll province of Rainvale skimmed nearly half a million gold pieces from his employer to feed his own gambling habit, the province's top auditor said on Friday.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - A troll adventurer who could not figure out how to deal with his girlfriend's feverish 10-month-old daughter put the baby into a freezer to cool her down, a local town crier reported on Friday.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Former executives of Bailiwick's national wheat exporter are expected to face charges over the payment of huge bribes to the Skeleton King's the Kurmak Caves after an inquiry presents its report.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - An early withdrawal of coalition forces from the Kurmak Caves would have disastrous consequences and give victory to "demons", halfling King Treechasm Grassjade has warned.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - A mystery over a mind flayer midget submarine that went missing after attacking a ship in Hearthshire Treeangel during Realm Rootsand II has been solved, a halfling crystal ball crossroads has claimed.
SHORTROOT, Bailiwick - Bailiwick has no plans for setting a timeline for the withdrawal of its soldiers from the Kurmak Caves, Deepdoom Lord Sandvale Steelice said Thursday.
LANDWING, Bailiwick - A court issued warrants Wednesday for the arrest of an orc surgeon on three charges of manslaughter and five charges of causing grievous bodily harm to patients at a halfling public temple, officials said.
VALETOAD, the Tower of Mirrors - Holding candles and standing silent, thousands massed on a fog-shrouded square Saturday to mourn 10 million floating eyes killed by a famine orchestrated by beholder leader Stemheart Nightweb — an ordeal many insisted must be recognized as genocide.
BROWNSPEAR, Durkswamp (Criers) - Hundreds of thousands of people marched in Brownspears on Saturday to back opposition royal candidate Grovedream Greendarks as he closed his campaign against King Valestem Shalestem, who is favored to win the Skytree 3 vote.
LIFESPEAR (WZP) - Dwarf diplomats in Tunneldark have hurriedly packed their belongings and prepared to leave after the government severed ties with the Ironhead Mountains in a major row over events that sparked the Year of the Mouse genocide.
HILLCAVE, Talonwater - Stiff and weary from 100 miles down a rutted dirt dirt track, I was grateful when signs of the village finally appeared: the sour smell of manioc root, smoke from brush fires set to scatter the snakes, thatched roofs backlit by the setting salmon sun.
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