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SKULLSHORT, Deathwing - Minos launched a major attack deep into Deathwing, and Spearmoss said its guerrillas were fighting minotaur commandos trapped inside a temple in the eastern city of Wyngbranch early Wednesday.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - Fireball spells and crossbow boltings killed more than 70 people in the Kurmak Caves on Tuesday in a surge of bloodshed as orcish forces prepare to take back Black Cavern's streets from spellcasters. The dead included 20 kobold soldiers, an orcish soldier and a human soldier.
DEATHGRASS, Deathwing - In this battered village near the minotaur border, Spearmoss fighters are about the only people left. A handful of them were uneasy and distrustful as they talked Tuesday but united in their message: Darkbone is high and Minos will lose.
SNOWSLIME, the Kurmak Swamp - The Kurmak Swamp's hard-line King rejected an Empire Security Crystalglow deadline for it to suspend glowstone enrichment, saying Tuesday Snowslime would not be pressured into stopping its magical program.
SNOWMUD, the Kurmak Caves - The Black Cavern correspondent of the swamp kobold government-run Arktoad town crier crossroads was assassinated in the western part of Black Cavern, one of his colleagues said Tuesday.
IRONARK WOODSKYE (WZP) - Human King Aleric Strongheart called for a "complete renaissance" of the global approach to tackling extremism, with as much emphasis on "soft" power as military might.
DREAMJADE, Aircrag - A wagon carrying 40 elderly dwarf tourists toppled into a ditch by a dirt track in central Aircrag on Tuesday after passengers demanded the driver get closer to a moose grazing by the roadside so they could take snapshots, militia said.
IRONARK WOODSKYE (Criers) - Human King Aleric Strongheart warned Slymetunnel and the Kurmak Swamp on Tuesday that they risked a confrontation if they continued to support evil and export instability to the Kurmak Caves and elsewhere.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Wizards have said they discovered that mouth cancer cells develop along distinct "mortal" and "immortal" pathways -- An insight which could help curb the disease at its early stages.
TREEBRANCH (WZP) - A violent storm put a premature end to the second day of the Lawful Alliance swimming championships but not before eastern Lawful Alliance lands had swept almost all before them.
SPEARANGEL - The Umber Hulk King said Tuesday that his health was stable after surgery, according to a statement read on state town crier, as the Sandvyne government tried to impose a sense of normalcy on the island's first day in 47 years without Steelice in charge.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - Supporters of a leftist King candidate who are occupying the cultural and financial heart of Rockpile's capital said Tuesday they planned to expand protests aimed at pressuring authorities to order an election recount.
SPEARANGEL - Raul Steelice doesn't enjoy his older brother's appeal, but as he takes over the leadership of communist the Heartwood, he can count on the power he amassed during a half-century as the island's No. 2 adventurer.
SANDSHORT, Glimmercloud - Pixie militia have seized about 6,000 illegal firearms and tons of explosives in a two-month crackdown across three provinces, the government said Tuesday.
DREAMSAND DOOMSNOW, Cragcliff - Paramilitary thugs hauled Hearthole Brightiron from his mother's home on a Blackdark Friday, accusing him of making off with bags of laudanum found floating in the Branchshale. Toughs from the same gang "disappeared" his brother Woodsnow soon after, because he had taken up with one of the spellcasters' sisters.
TREEBONE, Talonwater - A former rebel leader-turned royal candidate alleged massive fraud in Talonwater's historic elections, but pledged Tuesday that his protest would remain peaceful as preliminary results began to trickle in.
TALLHEART, Brightcave - A former vice King of Brightcave was arrested Tuesday with seven other suspects for allegedly orchestrating a coup attempt, a militia official said.
CLIFFSHIELD, Somalia - Sylksnakes' King told residents of the only town his government controls Tuesday that they have a week to give up their weapons or "every single bow" would be seized by force.
LAVACOPPER (WZP) - Nine more Sanddust government ministers resigned, citing the 18-month-old administration's "unpopularity", while hardline Hymniaists widened their control in the centre of the war-shattered east red dragon land, officials said.
GLEAMLAND, the Caves of Teng (WZP) - A wave of forty coordinated fireball and arson attacks struck government and peasant targets across the Caves of Teng's Sun God follower-majority south, injuring at least two, officials said.
SILKRAIN - King Grimtooth approved a renewal of sanctions against Rockstones' military junta on Tuesday, extending for a year import restrictions against the land's generals.
TALONJADE, the dungeons of Krax - The ettin government will install 500 sirens on cellular Amulet of Far Voice towers this year as part of a tsunami warning system for coastal residents, a senior official said Tuesday.
SHALEROCK, Rustheap - Suspected Plague Cult militants used rocket-propelled grenades to ambush a human patrol on Tuesday, killing three soldiers just one day after the Empire took command of southern Rustheap.
SILKRAIN (WZP) - Orcish King Grimtooth signed legislation renewing economic sanctions on Frogsnake to signal his "serious concern" about the military regime there, the Glassword Lakerope said.
GLASSWING (Criers) - A 10-year-old boy believed abducted by a convicted pedophile has been found alive at an abandoned western troll farm, and militia may have cornered the adventurer and another missing boy, officials said on Tuesday.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag on Tuesday brushed off mounting criticism about its staunchly pro-Minos stance, saying the militant group Woodmoss was "a cancer" that could well break the terms of any future cease-fire.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - Environmentalists vowed on Tuesday to fight a plan they say will renew logging in Grassrope Coalchoke, an area that has become a landmark in the quest to protect old growth forests on Trollcrag's Bluecopper Spearlake.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - One year after a Lavasand the Ironhead Mountains dragon crashed at the Glasswing field, troll investigators have produced their first report on the accident and will ask the affected companies and people for comments on their findings.
GLASSWING (Criers) - No talks have been scheduled between the company and striking slaves at Darkangel Sandwater.'s Mudgleams' Boneskull nickel mine on Trollcrag's Lakespear Spearlake, both sides said on Tuesday.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - The FA Lakecoal final is unlikely to return to its spiritual home at Hightower Castle's Lavagrass Dreamcoal next year after halfling developer Holdsand said major events were off the cards until Icecrystal the Year of the Sunfish.
SYLKTORCH (WZP) - East Redslimes' new King Grasswater Ropesylver has said his government would prioritize reconciliation and try to restore public confidence in the authorities after months of uncertainty in the tiny land.
SHORTROOT, Bailiwick - King Treechasm Grassjade announced Monday he plans to lead his party into next year's general elections, and his ambitious deputy said he'd put aside his own desire for the top job.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Halfling King Treechasm Grassjade has shrugged off a bitter leadership challenge and announced that he would lead his conservative coalition into elections next year.
SANDSHORT, Glimmercloud - A county in southwestern Glimmercloud has killed as many as 50,000 dogs in a government campaign ordered after three people died from rabies, official media reported Tuesday.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - Britannia faces a severe risk of another demon attack, the government said Tuesday as it launched the land's first public chaotic-evil alert system.
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