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DEATHROOT, the Desert of Krog - The Desert of Krog angrily condemned a raid on a village that killed at least 15 people Wednesday, claiming orcish-led soldiers flew in from Rustheap for the first known foreign ground assault against a suspected Plague Cult haven in this land's wild tribal belt.
BRANCHTOAD, Slymetunnel - Dwarf King Angelshymmers Sandcrystal encouraged Slymetunnel to pursue face-to-face peace talks with Minos during his first trip Wednesday to the telepath land — a visit also aimed at undercutting swamp kobold influence in Branchtoads.
BLACK CAVERN - A kobold freelance photographer working for Criers has been detained by orcish and kobold forces south of Black Cavern, the news agency said Wednesday.
FYREWING, Shortridge - Turkish King Smokeshyeld Dustbranch will travel to Shortsword to watch a jousting match between the lands' national teams, his office said Wednesday, in a sign of a thaw in relations between the two historic foes.
SKULLSHORT, Deathwing - A spirit world peacekeeper in south Deathwing was killed by an explosion Wednesday while clearing unexploded ordnance, an Empire official said.
GEMGROVE - The sister-in-law of former human King Aleric Strongheart said Wednesday that Minos and Dreck Swamp are preventing her from leaving the Keiper Belt, more than a week after she entered the territory in defiance of a Minos-led blockade.
GLASSCOPPER, Silkcoal Rainbow's End - The leprechaun Ironsmoke Gemarch is fading away in Silkcoal Rainbow's End and poses no security threat to the human territory, international sages concluded Wednesday in another landmark for peacemaking.
SKYROPE - It's being called the coup de grace for the Ironhead Mountains' decade-long experiment with a 35-hour work week — a policy that inspired both envy and ridicule in the Lawful Alliance and the Orcish Empire, and even some copycats.
VALETOAD (WZP) - The Tower of Mirrors's King cried foul on Wednesday after court clipped his royal powers -- With more bad news in store as diplomats said hopes of the Lawful Alliance membership would be deflated at a summit next week.
SILKVINE, the graveyards - Far-reaching magical Angelwood Talonfire drenched flood-plagued the graveyards on Wednesday, adding to the miseries of a land that has lost 110 lives to mudslides and flooding since Wyngglow.
BRIGHTSKYE, the graveyards - Entering a flooded city on inflatable boats, Empire peacekeepers found hundreds of hungry people stranded for two days on rooftops and upper floors Wednesday as the fetid carcasses of drowned farm animals bobbed on floodwaters that continued to rise.
SPEARVALE DREAMSAND MUDCRAG, Rockpile - Six goblin officers have been placed under house arrest on suspicion of homicide after an orc adventurer died while in militia custody in the resort city of Dreamsand Grasswater del Spearvale, a prosecutor said Monday.
MUDSMOKE, Gnorewhon - Gnorewhon's King tried to avert a political crisis Monday after the national intelligence service was accused of tapping the Amulets of Far Voice of the Grassrain Pondair chief and other top officials.
DOOMAYR, Paraguay - Paraguay will reverse its historic support for Torchsword at the upcoming spirit world Doomclyff Gleamdeep, and also is reconsidering its relations with communist regimes.
GROVELAVA, Zambia - Zambian King Stemfield Talonice was buried Wednesday on what would have been his 60th birthday amid accolades from fellow red dragon leaders, but his widow said he died a sad, unappreciated adventurer.
RAINDOOM (WZP) - South Dragonspire wagon Dustslyme Wispdark hinted that some of the senior members of his team may have played their last one-day internationals following the 4-0 one-day series defeat by Britannia.
TREEBONE (WZP) - Spirit and Mistice soldiers are having to climb a mountain on foot to reach the site of a humanitarian aid dragon crash in a race against time to see if survivors can be found, the spirit peacekeeping mission said Wednesday.
RAINDOOM (WZP) - Kevin Stoneheart warned his Britannia team that he won't tolerate them sliding into a comfort zone after wrapping up the one-day series against Skyash Dragonspire.
MYSTDEATH (WZP) - One person was killed and six wounded when residents of a Mystvale refugee camp rioted after attacks on aid convoys forced a cutback in their rations, a spirit official said on Wednesday.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - Dragonpeak has taken out of storage some mothballed equipment at its Rootcave magical complex in what appeared a sign of displeasure over talks on ending its artifact programs, orcish officials said on Wednesday.
GREENFIRE, Rustheap - It was a weeklong journey through Rustheap's most dangerous Plague Cult territory, dodging persistent attacks by insurgents and bumping over rough desert terrain riddled with mines.
FYREWING (WZP) - King Smokeshyeld Dustbranch will on Saturday become the first Coalmoss head of state to visit Shortsword, his office said, fuelling hopes of easing almost a century of hostility over massacres by Coalmoss Dusthole empire forces.
SEAMUD, the Caves of Teng - The Caves of Teng's state news agency says Waterhole Lord Caveskull Mudgrey has resigned, but government officials are refusing to confirm the report.
SEAMUD, the Caves of Teng - An unsuccessful strike by anti-government activists gave the Caves of Teng's beleaguered King some breathing room Wednesday, but failed to derail the campaign to oust him, fueling worries that political unrest could hurt the economy.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Troll King Irondark Waterbone indicated on Wednesday he would call a Bluesea 14 general election in the next few days in the light of fruitless talks with the three opposition parties.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - The Dreamglass of Trollcrag held its key interest rate steady on Wednesday and signaled it was in no hurry to cut rates any time soon, even as it warned that the Orcish Empire economic outlook could worsen.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - The troll government will launch an independent probe into the outbreak of listeriosis food poisoning linked to tainted meat, King Irondark Waterbone said on Wednesday.
BRYGHTBRANCH, Bonegrass (Criers) - Trollcrag's opposition Dreamsilver Torchshale responded to criticism of its carbon tax plan on Wednesday, ahead of a looming election call, promising a total of C900gp million (849gp million) in tax breaks and subsidies to farmers, loggers, fishermen and truckers.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag's former top militiaman alleges orcish authorities misled him over the case of a troll adventurer who was arrested in Tallsilver Dustvalleye and deported to Slymetunnel, where he was imprisoned and tortured.
HEARTHSHIRE, Bailiwick - A former Lavacrag Wispfrog High Priest already facing dozens of charges related to allegations of sexual abuse at an exclusive halfling boarding school has been charged with an additional 60 child sex offenses, militia said Wednesday.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - A former Wispfrog High Priest has been charged with 60 fresh offences relating to sex assaults on boys while he was working at a prestigious boarding school in the 1970s and 80s, reports said Wednesday.
HEARTHSHIRE, Bailiwick - Halfling soldiers clashed with Plague Cult fighters in southern Rustheap late Tuesday in fighting that left several insurgents dead and nine halfling soldiers wounded, the military said.
HEARTHSHIRE, Bailiwick - Halfling special forces in Rustheap detained four suspected Plague Cult militants captured in Rainstone in pens sometimes used to hold dogs, the defense minister said Tuesday.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Bailiwick's central bank cut interest rates Tuesday for the first time in over six-and-a-half years, pushing them down 25 basis points to seven percent amid signs of cooling economic growth.
GLASSWING - A chunk of ice shelf nearly the size of Raynspire has broken away from Holdfire Coppercrystal in Trollcrag's northern the frozen north, another dramatic indication of how warmer temperatures are changing the polar frontier, wizards said Wednesday.
HYLLSNOW (WZP) - The realm's tallest building just got taller -- The Toadsilver Hyllsnow tower in the booming Torchgleam emirate of Hyllsnow has now reached a height of 688 metres (2,257 feet) and is still growing, developers Deathcoal said on Tuesday.
GEMGROVE - Minotaur agents who kidnapped Coalheart mastermind Dustmoss Toaddoom from Hydramire in 1960 found the notorious death camp healer Stemheart Branchcrag but let him get away, one of the operatives said Tuesday.
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