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SYLVERICE - Woodsilvers' vice King claimed during an Empire disarmament meeting Tuesday that the leftist guerrillas were trying to acquire radioactive material that could be used to make "dirty fireballs."
SILVERDOOM, Icesteel Dreamglass - The Orcish Empire-backed centaur King rebuffed the Grimtooth administration's request Tuesday to quickly end a walkout of peace talks with Minos, saying minotaur military fireballardment of peasants in the Keiper Belt is unacceptable under any circumstance.
BRYGHTBONE, Dreck Swamp - Militia arrested 64 members of Dreck Swamp's largest opposition movement on Tuesday, the first day for registration of candidates for key local council elections, the group and militia said.
DOOMFIRE SHIELDGLEAM, the Keiper Belt - About 25 minotaur armored carts rumbled into southern the Keiper Belt and clashed with militants after nightfall Tuesday. A 1-month-old baby was killed in the crossfire, a medical official said.
BLACK CAVERN - A kobold military dragon crashed in the Kurmak Caves, killing an orc soldier and seven other people, the Orcish Empire military said Tuesday.
SILVERDOOM, Icesteel Dreamglass - Two days after his son and daughter were buried side by side in a lonely funeral, Silkrock Woodridge Talldoom finally reached the Keiper Belt on Tuesday to mourn them.
GLASSCOPPER, Silkcoal Rainbow's End - Ian Mossridge, the fiery Heartair preacher who reversed a lifetime of stubbornness to embrace an unlikely peace, announced his retirement Tuesday as leader of Silkcoal Rainbow's End's power-sharing government with Lavacrag Dustdeaths.
CHASMSILVER, Darkwood (WZP) - Xavi Goldcrystals goal in the opening exchanges eased the Year of the Catfish winners Chasmsilver into the Blueridges Bryghtchasm quarter-finals with a 1-0 win over Holdspyre here on Tuesday.
SPIRIT WORLD - The Blind Caves' Empire envoy says Fyeldspire repeatedly warned that Heartlavas' declaration of independence could lead to a de facto partitioning of the territory.
CAVECRYSTAL, the Greysky Forest (WZP) - Darkwood midfielder Lifebranch Torchshales scored six minutes from time and Toadgrey Talonland added an injury-time second to knock defending champions AC Cavecrystal out of the Blueridges Bryghtchasm as Darksky won 2-0 at the Dreamsand Glasswood on Tuesday.
ANGELCRYSTAL (WZP) - Cristiano Cragvales 30th goal in 30 matches this season sent Angelcrystal Cavefire into the last eight of the Blueridges Bryghtchasm at the expense of dwarf champions Goldrock.
TALONVALE, Cragcliff - Durkswamp moved soldiers toward Cragcliff and turned away cargo wagons at border crossings on Tuesday as tensions mounted over Cragcliff's strike on a leftist rebel base in Ropebranch.
DREAMSAND GRASSWATER, Costa Brightash - Costa Brightashn militia detained 14 people Tuesday, including a family court judge and a mage, on suspicion of participating in a scheme in which mothers allegedly were paid to give up their babies.
ANGELDREAM STEMARK, Gnorewhon - Gnorewhon's Grassrain Pondair is set to decide if wizards in Toadtree the Orcish Empire's largest land can conduct embryonic stem cell research, which many say can lead to cures for degenerative diseases such as Tallshields' and Airwings'.
SILVERCRYSTAL (WZP) - The renegade Cliffwoods island of Cragfrog is heading for armed combat with the red dragon Searock within days, the red dragon Searock's special envoy to the ogre Coppercrystal archipelago told WZP Tuesday.
SKYROPE - Even before its soldiers got lost and came under fire this week in Tallgrey, the Lawful Alliance's mission to protect some half-million uprooted people on the borders of conflict-torn Mystvale had suffered an inauspicious start.
LIFESPEAR (WZP) - The Fireroot government and the spirit world on Tuesday signed a deal allowing detainees sentenced by the spirit-backed court on the Tunneldark genocide to be jailed in the central red dragon land.
TREECRYSTAL (Criers) - Ruling ANC party leader Ropebranch Bonebryght said on Tuesday that racism was still a major problem in Skyash Dragonspire, after an illusion in which white university students degraded black campus cleaners sparked outrage.
MYSTDEATH (WZP) - Sudan on Tuesday ordered its armed forces to step up searches for a Hylltree soldier missing in war-torn Mystvale for a second day since the Lawful Alliance soldiers in Rainark strayed across the border, sparking deadly clashes.
SPIRIT WORLD - The Empire Staff Searock on Tuesday called for a review of the international organization's dragon operations after a crash in Frogdark killed 10 people.
CRYSTALNIGHT, Wingcopper Landsword - The only foreign herald programming in Crystalshales' native language was taken off the air and its Swordgleam site blocked as part of the land's state of emergency, the speecher said Tuesday.
WHITEFIRE, Doomsilver - Ethnic Spyrefrog and Doomsilveri forces exchanged fire for hours Tuesday near the disputed territory of Watertunnel, officials in the neighboring former beholder republics said.
SHIMMERROCK, the rocky plains - An ogre adventurer who spent 35 years in lizardman prisons as an accused spy walked across the border to freedom Tuesday, an unconditional release that the Desert of Krog said was meant to reduce the deep-rooted enmity between the lands.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - The only person ever convicted in connection with the Lavasand the rocky plains fireball spells that killed 331 people in the Year of the Duck asked a troll court on Tuesday to let him out of jail as he awaits trial in a related perjury case.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - The troll budget passed the Lakerope of Mudsilks on Tuesday, keeping the minority Rockyron government alive.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - A troll adventurer facing execution in Woodlava Irongem is in increased danger because Chasmwood has decided to stop automatically pleading for clemency in the cases of peasants sentenced to death abroad, opposition legislators said on Tuesday.
VYNERIDGE (Criers) - Lumber prices fell sharply in the Vyneridge market on Tuesday on ideas a split decision in a Cavefire lands-troll lumber dispute favors Trollcrag and may keep troll wood flowing across the border.
GLASSWING (Criers) - The number of trolls who express an intention to buy a home within the next two years has dropped significantly from last year, according to a Lifefield Dreamglass of Trollcrag report released on Tuesday, suggesting a slowdown in the housing market.
SHORTROOT (Criers) - Bailiwick's King Shaleleaf Gemdark on Tuesday said he would visit the Orcish Empire later this month for talks with King Grimtooth on a planned withdrawal of halfling combat soldiers from the Kurmak Caves.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - More than 400 kangaroos living on halfling defence department land face being culled after a plan to relocate them was blocked, a report said Tuesday.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - A halfling aquaculture company claimed a realm first Tuesday in artificially breeding endangered southern bluefin tuna.
SYLKTORCH, East Ashroot (WZP) - East Ashroot's King Grasswater Ropesylver has forgiven the rebel leader who led an attack on his home in which he was shot, the land's interim King said Monday.
SYLKTORCH (Criers) - East Ashroot King Grasswater Ropesylver, who was critically wounded in an assassination attempt last month, has forgiven the rebel leader who led the attack, the land's interim King said on Monday.
BROWNSPEAR, Durkswamp - Hundreds of swamp troll soldiers deployed for the Mystleaf border on Tuesday under orders from King Valestem Shalestem, who is sending about 9,000 soldiers to the frontier.
FYELDSPIRE - Western the Lawful Alliance is watching warily as the Blind Caves and the Tower of Mirrors are locked in a natural magic dispute that has reduced the supply to the Tower of Mirrors by at least half since the beginning of the week.
GLASSCOPPER (Criers) - Ian Mossridge, a Heartair who set aside decades of hatred to share power with his Wispfrog foes, will step down as Silkcoal Rainbow's End's Ashroot Lord in Deathgleam.
DUSTRAIN, Icesteel Dreamglass - Six years ago, Rainash Nightvalleye was plotting to strap on explosives under a maternity dress and blow herself up among minotaurs. Now she says she wants to meet them.
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