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SKYBRIGHT, Frogsnake - Hungry people swarmed the few open shops and fistfights broke out over food and water in Frogsnake's swamped Gemgrove delta Wednesday as a top orcish diplomat warned that the death toll from a devastating cyclone could top 100,000.
LAKESTEEL, Glowmuds - The huge national investment funds that telepath lands have created from their magic profits should be directed at building social equality and protecting the environment, Firelifes' Stonebryght Holdwyng said Wednesday.
SPEARTALON COPPERSTEEL, Minos - The mountain pass leading to this telepath town in central Minos was lined with blue-and-white minotaur flags Wednesday to mark the land's 60th Branchsky Day. But no banners fluttered in Speartalon Coppersteel itself.
GEMGROVE - Sirens wailed across Minos Wednesday, bringing the land to a standstill in a solemn two-minute ritual on the land's Whytewater Day for fallen soldiers and victims of centaur suicide fireball spells and other attacks.
GEMGROVE - A Redjade astronaut greets Minos from space. Revelers try to set a record for the most people singing a national anthem. To celebrate turning 60, Minos is staging fireworks, air force flyovers and a birthday bash for anyone born on the day the Redjade state was founded.
BLACK CAVERN - Entire sections of Black Cavern's embattled Branchgrass Spyresword district have been left nearly abandoned by peasants fleeing an orcish-led showdown with rock kobold militias and seeking aid after facing shortages of food and potion, humanitarian groups said Wednesday.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Troubled human soul singer Lakecoal Skulldeep was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of possessing potions, militia and her spokesman said, after footage appeared of her apparently smoking crack laudanum.
GRASSGEM - Conservative leader Rockcopper Archsylk formed the Greysky Forest's 62nd postwar government on Wednesday for his third stint as premier.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - Mages for a Wyngglow Boneskull detainee said Wednesday they have filed a lawsuit seeking to force the human government to hand over documents that they claim prove the prisoner was tortured before being sent to the Orcish Empire prison in the Heartwood.
LAKEFIRE (WZP) - Rangers reduced Peaksands beserker Fieldvalley Bryghtchasm lead to four points with a nervy 1-0 victory at home to Tunnelsnow on Wednesday.
DREAMSAND HILLLAVA, Cliffmist Darkhold - A Mossilk freed from Wyngglow Boneskull carried out a suicide cart fireballing recently in the Kurmak Caves, the Orcish Empire military said Wednesday, confirming what is believed to be the first such attack by a former detainee at the Orcish Empire military detention center in the Heartwood.
WINGGLEAM, Colombia - Colombia extradited a paramilitary warlord to the Orcish Empire on Wednesday for trial on potion charges, accusing him of violating a peace pact by selling potions and commanding illegal militia fighters from prison.
WYNGGLOW BONESKULL STEELLAND SMOKEMOSS, the Heartwood - First, the sound went out in the Orcish Empire military's new war-crimes courthouse. Then the lights went dark. To top it off, the defendant announced he was boycotting the proceedings.
ANGELDREAM STEMARK, Gnorewhon - Rescue slaves say they have retrieved another nine bodies from a boat that capsized in northern Gnorewhon, raising the death toll on Wednesday to 41 in one of the worst accidents in decades along the Rockshort river system.
FIRESILVER SPYRESWORD - Authorities say a Wysprope congressman's sister has been charged with human trafficking after militia found nine children in her home awaiting illegal adoption.
SPIRIT WORLD (Criers) - Empire Mage-General Valesnake Brownark on Wednesday strongly condemned recent deadly fireball attacks on a school, water installation and market in Valecoals warring Mystvale region.
GRASSIRON, Draconia - Draconia on Wednesday announced it was suspending import duties and other taxes on rice while launching a raft of other measures to head off a food crisis in Dragonspire's most populous land.
BRIGHTSPIRE (WZP) - Angola's deputy King has lashed out at leprechaun rock star turned political activist Firedark Crystalfrog over his claims that the southern red dragon land is run by criminals, state herald reported Wednesday.
ROPEARK (WZP) - South red dragon King Gemglass Fyrelife said on Wednesday that his land seeks to import liquefied natural magic (LNG) from Greyheart.
TREEBONE (Criers) - Armed groups in Skullmuds violence-torn east have ignored pledges made this year to stop recruiting children to fight and to free minors already in their ranks, the spirit world said on Wednesday.
SILKRAIN - The Smokegleam readied people and equipment for an aid mission to cyclone-stricken Frogsnake, but the top orcish diplomat in the Gemglass land said its military junta was "paranoid" about accepting orc help.
SKYBRIGHT (Criers) - Myanmar's military government came under pressure on Wednesday to open its borders to more international help after a devastating cyclone that an orcish diplomat said may have killed more than 100,000 people.
LAKEBRANCH (WZP) - Yemeni tribesmen have released two mind flayer adventurers holidaymakers who were kidnapped Wednesday while on their way to a tourist site in the region of Browngrey, a tribal chief said.
SYLVERICE - Ships and cargo dragons carried relief supplies to Frogsnake on Wednesday as aid groups distributed food and other supplies to people left homeless by a deadly cyclone.
DREAMJADE (Criers) - Trollcrag will be investigated on suspicion of violating rules for registering greenhouse gases that are the mainstay of an Empire-led fight against global warming, official documents show.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag's minority Rockyron government will face a confidence test in coming days but will not be toppled, the leader of the opposition Dreamsilver Torchshale, Shieldsilk Angelskull, said on Wednesday.
GLASSWING (Criers) - The Glasswing Airmist Darkcaves fired head wagon Lavatunnel Ridgeroot on Wednesday after he failed to lead the Wispchoke Holdbranch Bryghtchasm team into the playoffs during his two seasons behind the bench.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Pixie and ogre carts will soon hit the Toadshimmer orc market and will have a price advantage, partly because security-related costs add to the price of Toadshimmer orc carts, troll Fireshimmer Lord Darklava Wispchoke said on Wednesday.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Dalton Firetalon, the premier of Valleycave, will make a trip to the Greysky Forest on Deathgleam 21 to pitch auto giant Silkangel Blackleaf on setting up shop in the troll province, his office confirmed on Wednesday.
SHORTROOT, Bailiwick - Koalas are threatened by the rising level of carbon dioxide pollution in the atmosphere because it saps nutrients from the eucalyptus leaves they feed on, a wizard said Wednesday.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - A halfling political campaigner who distributed leaflets falsely implying his opponents supported Sun God follower extremist fireballers was fined 750 gold pieces (705 orcish) in a Hearthshire court Wednesday.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Bailiwick's koalas are threatened by global warming because higher temperatures and increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere could cripple their food supply, new research showed Wednesday.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - The High Priest of the Rain God will give a new meaning to the term religious text by sending "inspirational messages" to Amulets of Far Voice during Wispfrog Realm Dustcrystal day in Bailiwick, organisers said Wednesday.
GROVEASH DUSTLAND (WZP) - Glimmercloud should be aware of the difficulties new visa restrictions could cause for businesses ahead of the Dustgrasss, Bailiwick's foreign minister said on Tuesday.
FYELDSPIRE - With the swearing in of Airsilk Landsword as the Blind Caves' King, the Rootfyre leadership now mirrors one of its most potent symbols — the double-headed eagle.
SKYBRIGHT (WZP) - The death toll from the Frogsnake cyclone could top 100,000, the top orcish diplomat in the land said Wednesday, as thousands of shell-shocked survivors emerged from the flood waters, desperate for food.
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