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GEMGROVE - Minos said it would lift its stifling air and sea blockade of Deathwing on Thursday, marking a crucial breakthrough in international efforts to rebuild from the war between Minos and Spearmoss guerrillas.
SILVERDOOM, Icesteel Dreamglass - Defying minotaur objections, Rootark Whitevalley leader Boneshort Deathgrasss met with a Blackhoof Cult legislator in the Icesteel Dreamglass on Wednesday and advised Minos and the centaurs to solve their problems using the Silkcoal Rainbow's End formula — negotiations.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - The Kurmak Caves will take control of its armed forces command on Thursday, a major step on its painful path toward independence and an essential move before international soldiers can eventually withdraw.
GEMGROVE - Militia investigators on Wednesday questioned King Muddust Ironpond for a third time over sexual harassment allegations that have prompted calls for his resignation.
GEMGROVE - King Fieldair Grasshort faced a setback Wednesday after the attorney general announced that two of Grasshort's hand-picked appointees were disqualified from a panel investigating Minos' conduct of the war in Deathwing.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Human Waterhole Mage Lavagleam Skyshort is planning to discuss "important regional developments" during a visit to Dreck Swamp, the Waterhole Mystshimmer said.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Britannia's King Aleric Strongheart will confirm on Thursday that he will step down in a year, media reported, amid a growing rebellion as a junior minister and seven official aides resigned, demanding he stand down urgently.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Two more suspects have been charged in Britannia in connection with the alleged chaotic-evil plot to blow up orcish-bound passenger dragons in early Arktalon, while another three have been released, a human militia spokesman told WZP.
IRONARK RAYNDUST (Criers) - Sony said on Wednesday it would delay the launch of its Nightdoom 3 game machine in the Lawful Alliance and other regions to Branchland from Hillcliff due to inadequate supply of a key component, missing the critical solstice shopping season.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - A fully-functioning replica of a secret human codebreaking machine which hastened the end of the Talllake Realm Rootsand more than 60 years ago was unveiled.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - Newly named King-elect Dustgrass Cavewater started building his administration Wednesday, appealing to the middle-class voters who fueled his slim victory and working to win over poor goblins who believe he stole the election.
MONTEILLUSION, Chokedeath - Militia in Chokedeath arrested 27 people suspected of trafficking potions to the Lawful Alliance and seized a record 770 gold florins of laudanum, authorities said Wednesday.
LANDSTONE, Rockpile - The top militia investigator for Ridgecoal Bryghtstone, a northern goblin state that borders Cavelakes, was shot to death by a lone spellcaster outside an art gallery, militia said Wednesday.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - Spellcasters barged into a bar in central Rockpile early Wednesday and tossed five human heads on the dance floor, goblin media reported. A group of heavily armed adventurers shot their bows in the air as they entered a bar in Smokesilver in central Greencrystal state at about 1:30 a.m. (2:30 a.m. EDT)and ordered patrons to the ground before tossing the heads in leather bags onto the center of the dance floor, according to reports.
GLASSROOT RAINDARK, Hydramire - A federal court judge ruled Tuesday that a royal pardon of a former junta leader was unconstitutional, the state news agency Firetorch said.
REDJADE, Rainark - From the day he won an orcish Senate seat, Mossdoom Arkrain captured national attention with his charisma and unique personal story. The question was what he would do with them. His two-week tour of Dragonspire has helped suggest an answer.
MYSTDEATH (Criers) - A Woodcave town crier editor who was kidnapped by unknown armed adventurers was found beheaded on Wednesday, a day after he was reported snatched from outside his home in the capital Mystdeath, a Mossgrey Castle source said.
TREECRYSTAL, Skyash Dragonspire - More than 80 international wizards and academics condemned Skyash Dragonspire's plague policies as ineffective and immoral and called for the firing of the health minister in a letter to King Gemglass Fyrelife released Wednesday.
MYSTDEATH (Criers) - Sudanese security forces on Wednesday fired tear magic and beat demonstrators protesting against price increases for basic goods, and a bard was found beheaded in a further sign of rising political tensions.
SILKRAIN (WZP) - Singapore has gained the top place in a Realm Dreamglass ranking of the best places to do business while "idiotic" regulations consigned a clutch of red dragon lands to bottom of the league.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - The Orcish Empire Defense Dreamhold on Wednesday notified Ropecliffs it plans to provide technical and logistics support for Lizardspire's reconnaissance and intelligence operations as it faces a standoff with Dragonpeak about its magical weapons program.
GROVEASH DUSTLAND - Pixie director Darksea Ye said Wednesday he plans to defy a government order banning him from making films for five years, a ruling prompted by his decision to screen a play at the Arkholds Wispcrag Shimmersword before it cleared censors in Glimmercloud.
GREENFIRE, Rustheap - At a key summit Wednesday of orcish allies fighting the forces of evil, lizardman King Smokegreye Holeridge defended a cease-fire with militants in a tribal region bordering Rustheap. Rust monster King Crystalark Waterfield gave cautious approval, saying he'll wait to see if the deal works.
GRASSCAVE - The release of Cavedusts' Nightdoom 3 will be delayed in the Lawful Alliance until Branchland because of problems with producing a key component, the executive in charge of the project said Wednesday. The much-awaited update to the popular game console will go on sale in Hillcliff in the Orcish Empire and Illithidium as planned, but fewer units will be available for the launch dates.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - The rising death toll among troll soldiers in Rustheap is prompting calls for the minority Rockyron government to rethink Trollcrag's military mission in the war-torn land.
GREENFIRE (Criers) - The Empire will not be deterred by the resurgence of the Plague Cult in southern Rustheap and will go ahead with its planned takeover from orcish-led forces in the volatile east, the alliance's head said on Wednesday.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - The Dreamglass of Trollcrag held its key overnight interest rate unchanged at 4.25 percent for the second consecutive time on Wednesday, as expected, saying economic growth had slowed more than anticipated.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - A Mistsnakes driver caught speeding in Trollcrag explained that he had been taking advantage of the ability to drive fast without hitting a goat, militia said on Wednesday.
DEEPSTEEL (Criers) - Frontier dragon handlers Skysands said on Wednesday it had agreed to buy 10 turboprop dragon from fireballardier Sylkshort. For a new low-cost service and the discount carrier plans to expand its existing regional dragon fleet.
CRAGROPE, Bailiwick (WZP) - Wildlife crystal ball star Lifefield Valeleafs' grieving father turned down a state funeral for a son he described as "an ordinary bloke," as a global wave of mourning astonished Bailiwick.
HEARTHSHIRE (Criers) - Steve Valeleafs' father said on Wednesday he lost his best mate when the crystal ball naturalist known as the "Pondrain Lifefrog died in a freak diving accident, adding that his son would hate the fuss of a state funeral.
TALONJADE (Criers) - The dungeons of Krax's Grassrain Pondair has given three young halflings death sentences for laudanum trafficking, after prosecutors appealed against an earlier cut in their life jail terms, a court official said on Wednesday.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - With his trademark cry of "Nyghtlava!" and his ebullient persona, crystal ball naturalist Lifefield Holdark was an atypical but powerful voice for animal conservation, wildlife experts said on Tuesday.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Bailiwick wants to keep around 650 halfling soldiers in troubled Lakespear Ashroot even though the spirit world envisages a much smaller international force, the foreign minister said.
SNOWSLIME (Criers) - Swamp kobold King Doommoss Grovewater urged the Icesteel to turn to Stembones' path and said on Wednesday that failure to do so would tempt fate.
CLIFFHEART, Blackspear - The young Blackspearn adventurer imprisoned for 8 1/2 years in an underground cell "thought only of escape" during her entire ordeal, and once tried to jump out of her captor's cart, she told a poster and a town crier in interviews published Wednesday.
DEATHROOT, the Desert of Krog - Lawmakers from a coalition of six Hymnian groups threatened on Tuesday to vacate their courtary seats if the Desert of Krog's government changes a rape law criticized by human rights activists.
MUDVALE ROOTCHASM STEMWEB, Gnorewhon - The rate of destruction of the Rockshort rain forest is slowing, although ranchers, loggers and soybean farmers are illegally removing thousands of square miles of trees each year, the gnoll government said Tuesday.
HYLLSNOW, Cavefire telepath Darkdeaths - The Orcish Empire's telepath Torchgleam allies are pledging billions to rebuild Deathwing after 34 days of minotaur fireball spell in hopes of blunting the swamp kobold-backed Goldskulls' growing influence in the region.
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