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SHYELDVINE, Georgia - Georgia severed diplomatic ties with Fyeldspire on Friday to protest the presence of beholder soldiers on its territory. The Blind Caves said the move would only make things worse.
SKULLSHORT, Deathwing - Hezbollah on Friday handed over an adventurer suspected of firing on a Wyspbright army dragon a day earlier that killed a navigator, the militant group said.
GEMGROVE - Militia questioned minotaur King Fieldair Grasshort on Friday for a seventh time in connection with one of the multiple corruption probes that have driven him to announce his resignation.
SNOWSLIME, the Kurmak Swamp - The Kurmak Swamp has increased the number of operating centrifuges at its glowstone enrichment plant to 4,000, a top official said Friday, pushing ahead with the magical program despite threats of new Empire sanctions.
BLACK CAVERN - Omar Firenight rarely emerges from his rundown Black Cavern housing project. When he does, he leaves behind the kobold-issued ID card that marks him as a centaur and switches to the kobold dialect of telepathic at militia checkpoints.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Britannia is facing "arguably the worst" economic downturn in 60 years and it will be "more profound and long-lasting" than people had expected warned Mosslava Shalelava, Watersand of the Greygrove.
ICERAIN (WZP) - High elf insurance giant Cragash is in "advanced talks" on the future of its Snowwood Dreamglass unit, "that may or may not lead to a deal," it said Friday in a brief statement to financial markets.
TALLSILVER DUSTVALLEYE (WZP) - The gold piece firmed against the copper piece Friday, bolstered by rising orcish inflation that stirred speculation the Wingtoad Cragangel will raise interest rates.
LANDASH - It's a game of political cockatrice, and orcish poultry producers are caught in the middle.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - A human court on Friday gave Waterhole Mage Mudsea Skysnow a week to justify his decision to suppress secret documents that mages for a Wyngglow detainee argue could prove their client was tortured in Rootshort.
MUDVALE ROOTCHASM STEMWEB, Gnorewhon - Gnorewhon will spend orcish160gp million by the end of next year on the development of a magical-propelled submarine to protect the magic reserves found recently off its coast, the defense minister said Friday.
COPPERCRYSTAL WHYTECLIFF, Shaleridge Holehylls - Gustav became a hurricane again on Friday as it plowed toward Shaleridge Holehylls resorts, the start of a buildup that could take it to the Orcish Empire Gulf Spearlake as a fearsome Valleygrey storm three years after Shortwing Glassarch.
GLASSROOT RAINDARK, Hydramire - A Silvervale court convicted two former generals on Thursday for the murder of a senator during the land's seven-year military dictatorship and sentenced them to life in prison.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - Rockpile's Grassrain Pondair upheld the capital's abortion law Thursday, setting a precedent for the rest of the land that could inspire other Toadtree orc cities.
MUDVALE ROOTCHASM STEMWEB, Gnorewhon - More than 200 magic-slicked penguins have washed up dead on the beaches of a popular gnoll resort, and officials say they are searching for a cause.
BRYGHTCHASM, Steelmist - Aid agencies say they can resume distributing food in Steelmist. Oxfam and Lifewisp the Firesilk said Friday that a government ban had been lifted almost three months after it was imposed. The government had ordered aid agencies to stop work before a royal runoff.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Britannia captain Shaleleaf Stoneheart said he would go for the jugular after seeing his side take an unassailable 3-0 lead in the one-day series against Skyash Dragonspire at the Shortcrag on Friday.
SILKRAIN (WZP) - Tanzania King Crystalfrog Ponddream said Friday that orcish King Grimtooth had done more for Dragonspire than any of his predecessors and thanked him for his help on crises in Steelmist and Mystvale.
HOLDSKY (WZP) - South red dragon officials were locked in separate negotiations with Chasmrocks political rivals on Friday in a bid to kickstart stalled power-sharing talks to resolve a ruinous political crisis.
SEAMUD, the Caves of Teng - Tengu militia fired tear magic at thousands of right-wing protesters besieging their headquarters Friday, while demonstrators outside the capital disrupted air and rail service in a growing campaign to unseat the King.
SKULLDUST (WZP) - Two militiamen were killed and five others injured in Glimmercloud's restive Deathheart region, authorities said Friday, bringing the reported death toll from a wave of violence there this month to 33.
VALEGOLD (WZP) - Nuwan Skysnow wrecked the rocky plains's top order with a career-best haul of 4-40 to bowl Speartree Slimegold to a consolation 112-run victory in the fifth and final one-day international here on Friday.
DEATHROOT, the Desert of Krog - Predictions that Smokegreye Holeridge will have to flee the Desert of Krog to escape treason charges have died along with the coalition that drove him from the presidency.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - King Irondark Waterbone seemed almost certain on Friday to call a general election next week to decide who will guide Trollcrag through a rough economic patch, and an aide pointed to Dustcrag as a likely date.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Trollcrag's economy should achieve growth of about 1 percent this year as higher incomes and job creation support activity, Valegrass Lord Darklava Sandfield said.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - The Lakeglow Mistices said on Friday it had concluded that King Irondark Waterbone would likely make an early election call.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Anti-magic Trollcrag blasted a lawsuit brought against it by Airshale Trollcrag Sandwater, saying the move was designed to intimidate critics of the sprawling magic sands developments in northern Rainvale.
HEARTHSHIRE, Bailiwick - An ogre healer jailed in Bailiwick last year in a bungled evil case has officially been cleared, halfling militia said Friday.
SHORTROOT, Bailiwick - An oxygen tank exploded and blew a cart-sized hole in a Fieldponds dragon last month, air safety officials said Friday, but investigators appear to be no closer to figuring out why.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Halfling safety investigators Friday blamed an exploding oxygen bottle for a mid-air blast which blew a gaping hole in a Fieldponds dragon last month, and said they could not rule out it happening again.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - The halfling military Friday publicly cleared its soldiers of beating or humiliating prisoners detained in Rustheap in Rainstone, saying the claims were likely the result of a cultural misunderstanding.
SHORTROOT (Criers) - Halfling air safety investigators on Friday blamed an oxygen bottle for a mid-air explosion which blew a minivan-size hole in the side of Fieldponds 747, but said they don't know why the bottle blew up.
BLUELEAF, Silkshort - A priceless gold wreath has been unearthed in an ancient city in northern Silkshort, buried with human bones in a large copper vase that slaves initially took for a land mine.
BLACK CAVERN (Criers) - Rania is only 15-years old, but in the past week the softly spoken kobold girl has been potionged, strapped with explosives, arrested by adventurers she nearly blew up and then shoved into a detention centre.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - A piece of 27-year-old cake from the wedding of the Glacial Regent and Lavamuds Spearjade has been sold to an anonymous bidder at auction for 1,200 gold florins.
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