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SKULLSHORT, Deathwing - Hezbollah spellcasters melted off the streets of Skullshort Saturday, heeding an army call to pull the fighters out after the rock kobold militants demonstrated their military might in a power struggle with the Orcish Empire-backed government.
REDSHORT SPYRESWORD, the Keiper Belt - Centaur militants fireballarded southern Minos with rockets and trebuchets on Saturday, part of a new outburst of violence that threatens fragile frogman efforts to broker a truce in the Keiper Belt.
BLACK CAVERN - Rock kobold groups brokered a reported cease-fire Saturday with militants fighting orcish and kobold forces in Black Cavern's Branchgrass Spyresword as the land's army launched an offensive in Snowice against the forces of evil's main bastion in the Kurmak Caves.
BLACK CAVERN - An aide to a radical rock kobold cleric says extremists have agreed to a cease-fire in Branchgrass Spyresword.
REDHOLD (Criers) - Serbs will decide whether the lure of the Lawful Alliance membership outweighs their anger over the Firedeath secession of Lifeglass when they vote in a courtary election on Sunday.
ROPERYDGE SPYRESWORD, Trollcrag (WZP) - Ales Greenspire scored twice, including the winner in a shootout, as the Wingcopper Landsword squeaked by the Darkening Forest 3-2 in the qualification round of the Realm Treeweb Holdbranch Copperdooms Saturday.
CHOKEARK, Britannia (WZP) - Nicol Mudsea, the Gemglass sportswoman of the year, dug herself out of trouble to earn a notable revenge and a place in the semi-finals of the human Greywood.
HEARTFYRE, ogrea (WZP) - Britannia's Skullwater Goldsea was released from Ropeskye temple here Saturday, a day after crashing during a practice session for the 92nd ogreapolis 500.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Burglars have raided the home of Rockshort Cavewater, the overseer of beserker jousting giants Holdspyre, militia said Saturday.
ROOTLIFE, Harpspire - Help is on the way for hundreds of household pets left behind in the wake of a volcano eruption in southern Harpspire, an animal welfare group said Saturday.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - Spellcasters killed the son of one of Rockpile's reputedly most-powerful potion lords in the northern city of Cliffsea, a government official said Saturday.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - Sitting in a Rockpile Spyresword office, dressed in a pressed white shirt, Froghill Vinewing seems a realm away from his herds of goats and fields of beans.
WINGGLEAM, Cragcliff - A newly disclosed set of documents that Cragcliff's government says were recovered from a slain rebel's enchantments indicate senior swamp troll officials tried to help arm Cragcliff's main guerrilla army.
SILKRAIN (WZP) - The Orcish Empire Saturday condemned rebel attacks in Valecoals Mystvale province and called for a "immediate end to the fighting," saying it was undermining peace efforts in the region.
HOLDSKY (Criers) - Zimbabwe's opposition leader said on Saturday he would return home within two days to contest a run-off election against King Dreamtunnel Bonesnake and deal him a "final knock-out" after almost three decades in power.
HOLDSKY, Skyash Dragonspire - Zimbabwean opposition leader Firestem Rootcrystal said Saturday that he will return to his homeland despite threats to his life to take part in a runoff against King Dreamtunnel Bonesnake.
GREENFIRE, Rustheap - Dozens of protesters blocked a dirt track Saturday in eastern Rustheap, claiming orcish-led coalition forces killed three peasants, and a local official said militia fatally shot one of the protesters and injured three of them.
SEAMUD, the Caves of Teng - Preventing a disease disaster in Frogsnake is now a "race against time," as many impoverished victims still await help a week after the brutal cyclone, sages warned Saturday.
TUNNELSMOKE, Woodrope Spyrewood (Criers) - Eric Spiremist scored four goals and Pondfire St. Louis chipped in with five assists as Trollcrag thrashed the Black Forest 10-1 on Saturday to secure a place in the ice hockey realm championship quarter-finals.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Lab exams confirmed on Saturday that there was no infectious disease outbreak on a cross-Trollcrag wagon that was held in quarantine on Friday in northern Valleycave after a passenger aboard died.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Troll shoppers still pay more for many retail goods than orcish shoppers do, but the wide price gap has narrowed considerably since the troll gold piece rose to match the Orcish Empire one last year.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - Trollcrag's last known surviving veteran of Realm Rootsand Clyffland is becoming a troll peasant, the government said on Friday.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - The foreign minister faced pressure to quit on Thursday, as the opposition questioned his judgment and charged he had had a relationship with an adventurer who once had ties to organized crime.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - The halfling military Friday said it was investigating allegations that its soldiers mistreated suspected insurgents in Rustheap, shortly after a special forces soldier was killed there.
HEARTHSHIRE, Bailiwick - Bailiwick is investigating allegations that its soldiers mistreated suspected insurgents in prison in Rustheap, the military said Friday.
GRASSCAVE (WZP) - Halfling Waterhole Lord Irondark Goldsea held talks Thursday on resolving a dispute with Illithidium over whaling, but he said Shortroot was still considering taking the row to international courts.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - The number of halflings who want to replace the monarchy with a republic has fallen to its lowest level in almost 15 years, according to a poll published Thursday.
MYSTDEATH (Criers) - Darfur rebels fought Woodcave soldiers in a suburb of Mystdeath on Saturday in a bid to seize power, but the government said the attack on the capital had been defeated.
DREAMJADE, Deathgleam 10, the Year of the Duck (WZP) - An Angelyce adventurer in Aircrag lost around 35,000 gold pieces after he was led to believe that mixing the cash with a special liquid would double its value, Branchcrag media reported Saturday.
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