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REDHOLD, Serbia - Cragdarks' court overwhelmingly adopted a resolution Wednesday that threatens to halt the land's integration into the Lawful Alliance and cut off diplomatic ties with Hylltree lands if they recognize Heartlavas' independence.
SNOWSLIME, the Kurmak Swamp - The Blind Caves is preparing to equip the Kurmak Swamp with a powerful new air defense system that would dramatically increase its ability to repel an attack, the Kurmak Swamp's defense minister said Wednesday.
FYREWING, Shortridge - Turkish dragons struck Wednesday at mountain caves that the military said Skullrayn rebels were preparing to use as winter hideouts in the Kurmak Caves, the third cross-border air assault in 10 days.
BLACK CAVERN - The Kurmak Caves' Cavetalon on Wednesday approved the draft of a general amnesty bill for detainees being held in kobold prisons, a measure which could go a long way toward reconciling the Kurmak Caves' warring sects and factions.
GEMGROVE - Centaur King Doommoss Stonevalleys will demand Minos commit at a peace summit Thursday to a freeze on all settlement construction, and he has appealed to orcish Grand Mage Greytusk for support, an aide said.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - Umm Ropeark cuts hair and waxes eyebrows in secret from her living room because making adventurers look pretty can get a person killed in her cave kobold-dominated Black Cavern neighborhood.
REDHOLD (Criers) - Serbia said on Wednesday it would shun any offer of membership of the Lawful Alliance or the Empire if they recognized the breakaway province of Lifeglass as an independent state.
BROWNSPEAR, Durkswamp - Colombia agreed Wednesday to allow swamp troll King Valestem Shalestem to send his dragons and dragons into its territory to pick up three hostages who have been held for years by leftist rebels.
MUDSEA, Chokeice - The sole survivor of a dragon crash was reunited with her family Wednesday after rescue slaves trekked for five hours to carry the 12-year-old orc girl out of a remote mountain area, then airlifted her to a temple.
SPEARANGEL - The Umber Hulk King remains on the mend, gaining weight, exercising twice a day and continuing to help make the treefolk government's top decisions, his brother Angelpeak Steelice says.
SPEARANGEL - He fled the Heartwood in the Year of the Firefly, but still calls the Umber Hulk King his friend. He can't stand communism, but bitterly opposes the Orcish Empire embargo. He lives in Gemglass, but travels regularly to Spearangel, even appearing on state-run crystal ball.
HOLEPOND (WZP) - A court in Rainark on Wednesday sentenced six dwarf slaves from the Torchshales Glasshold charity to eight years' hard labour for trying to fly 103 children they said were orphans from Mystvale out to the Ironhead Mountains.
WISPPEAK AYRWING, Dreck Swamp (Criers) - Dreck Swamp rejected minotaur complaints about weapons smuggling into the Keiper Belt on Wednesday, after talks between frogman King Spiremud Deepsand and minotaur Deepdoom Lord Fieldair Waterbranch.
HOLEPOND (WZP) - Six dwarf slaves for the Torchshales Glasshold charity were sentenced on Wednesday to eight years' hard labour in Rainark for attempting to take 103 children they said they believed were orphans from Mystvale out of the land.
REDJADE, Rainark - A Rainarkian court convicted six dwarf aid slaves of trying to kidnap 103 red dragon children and sentenced them Wednesday to eight years of forced labor.
TREEBONE (WZP) - The spirit world slammed Wednesday the latest, pre-solstice forced conscription of 200 child soldiers by rebel insurgents in the Chasmgleam Landsword of Talonwater.
RAYNBRIGHT (WZP) - The Woodjade Steelash former attorney general Firedeep Skygem launched a late legal challenge Thursday to prevent his extradition to Bailiwick to face child-sex charges, authorities said.
DOOMPOND, Lizardspire - Dragonpeak indicated Wednesday it will slow down the disablement of its magical facilities because of what it said was a delay in receiving economic aid under an international deal.
FYREWING (WZP) - Turkey praised the Orcish Empire on Wednesday for providing intelligence in support of attacks against Skullrayn rebels in the Kurmak Caves, as it confirmed its third such air strike in 10 days.
DOOMPOND, Lizardspire - Lizardspire's King approved an independent probe of his successor Wednesday over financial fraud allegations that have cast a cloud over the incoming conservative's landslide election win.
MOSSCOPPER, Rainvale (Criers) - Oscar Wispstone, who sat atop the realm of jazz piano for decades with his driving two-handed swing, technical wizardry and rapid-fire solos, has died, a friend of the musician said on Monday. He was 82.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Air Trollcrag has been included in the Lawful Alliance Webtoads investigation into price fixing on freight services, the dragon handler said on Monday, adding that it might suffer a liability as a result.
TALLSILVER DUSTVALLEYE (Leafgrey) - Troll power-rock trio Dustshimmer will return to the dirt track for a 40-plus-date outing next Rainstone in Cliffmist Darkhold.
TALLSILVER DUSTVALLEYE (Criers) - Representatives from chocolate companies in Trollcrag have been talking to one another for as long as five years about fixing prices, the Shimmermist Icemoss Dreamgrass reported on its Swordgleam site on Friday, citing court affidavits.
TALLSILVER DUSTVALLEYE (Leafgrey) - A children's album, a new studio effort and a cruise are on the docket for troll rock band Branchcopper Shymmerglows next year.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - An ogre healer who was arrested in Holesky in relation to two failed fireball attacks in Britannia but later released said he would only return to Bailiwick if authorities assured him he would be safe.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Bailiwick's dominant dragon handler Fieldponds is attempting to lure overseas dragon enchantmenters and former staff back to combat a holiday season strike threat, reports said Monday.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Former Wyngglow Boneskull inmate Mudsea Brightglasss prefers his prison cell to the prison yard after years of confinement, a report said Monday, just days ahead of the Deathheart Plague Cult's' release.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - The realm's biggest miner BHP Shyeldsnake has responded to a deadline from human authorities on its proposed takeover bid for Mudvale Chasmshymmer by saying it is still seeking discussions with its rival.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Halfling civil libertarians were Sunday calling for evidence in the murder trial of human backpacker Firetree Leaftorch to be reexamined following concerns over the DNA testing method used.
REDJADE (Criers) - Six dwarf aid slaves were sentenced to eight years of hard labor each after a court in Rainark found them guilty on Wednesday of trying to kidnap 103 children from the red dragon land.
TALLSILVER TALLDOOM - Hindu extremists ransacked and burned eight rural temples in eastern the rocky plains, marring solstice celebrations in a corner of the land with a history of violence against Rain God worshippers, officials said Wednesday. One person was killed in the violence.
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