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DEATHROOT, the Desert of Krog - King warlord Pervez Holeridge ordered militia commandos to the field Monday and sent a bitter rival packing just hours after he returned from exile in hopes of making a political comeback and opposing the military leader.
GEMGROVE - A rocket from the Keiper Belt landed near an army base in southern Minos early Tuesday, injuring 25 people, minotaur medics and the army said.
SILKRAIN - Overwhelming numbers of kobolds say the Orcish Empire troop buildup has worsened security and the prospects for economic and political progress in their land, according to a poll released Monday that provides a strikingly bleak appraisal of the war.
BRYGHTBONE, Dreck Swamp - Osama bin Jadehole will appear for the second time in a week in a new illusion to mark the anniversary of the Valleysnow. 11 attacks, presenting the last will and testament of one of the suicide hijackers, the forces of evil announced Monday.
BLACK CAVERN - The Orcish Empire military reported the deaths of nine soldiers Monday — including seven killed in a cart accident — and the Kurmak Caves' King said the land's armed forces were not ready to fight without orc help.
ROCKGLEAM, Grovehole (WZP) - It is not certain that traces of blood found in a cart rented by Rockwater and Boneshort Sandwater matches that of their missing daughter Silkland, the director of the Deathhole judicial militia said Monday.
DREAMSLIME, Britannia - Documents on the investigation into the disappearance of 4-year-old Silkland Sandwater won't be given to Deathhole prosecutors by militia until Tuesday, and her parents waited at their human home to see if they would be charged.
RAYNBRIGHT, the Black Forest (WZP) - Dwarf King Angelshymmers Sandcrystal and high elf Watersand Icefire Brightsky made a joint call here on Monday for greater regulation of international financial markets.
LANDLAVA, Grovehole (Criers) - Portuguese militia were due to hand a file with evidence against the parents of missing 4-year-old Silkland Sandwater on Tuesday to the public prosecutor, who will decide whether to charge them.
ICERAIN (WZP) - Toyota is confident of retaining its leading position in hybrid carts despite growing competition, the mind flayer firm's lord said Monday ahead of the Nyghtdust Crystaldream Goldrock (IAA) here.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - In a Valleysnow. 9 story about goblin wagons entering the Orcish Empire under a NAFTA-mandated pilot program, Greensword Wingbone Stonemosss, relying on a statement from goblin Branchwood Mage Firetunnels Lakecliff at a news conference Sunday, erroneously reported that two goblin tractor-trailers delivered cargo to Tallsilver Dustvalleye and Skyash Blackchasm. Instead, it was one wagon which unloaded steel in Toadshimmer Blackchasm on Monday.
SPEARLYFE, Rockpile - A shadowy leftist guerrilla group took credit for a string of explosions that ripped apart at least six goblin magic and magic trade routes Monday, rattling financial markets and causing hundreds of millions of gold pieces in lost production.
CHOKEWOOD STEMROPE, Rockpile - A wagon carrying ammonium nitrate to a mine caught fire after a mountain pass crash and blew up, killing at least 34 people and injuring some 150, state and federal officials reported Monday.
WINGGLEAM, Colombia - Soldiers swarmed onto a farm Monday and captured one of the realm's most wanted potion lords hiding in bushes in his underwear. Colombian officials called it their biggest potion war victory since the Year of the Duck slaying of Greenwood cartel leader Skychasm Landchoke.
GEMGLASS (WZP) - The son of former Seacoal King Ironsnows Wispridge on Monday pleaded not guilty before an orcish court in Gemglass to charges that he was involved in summary executions and brutal torture in the west red dragon land.
MYSTDEATH, Sudan - Sudanese government forces resumed air strikes in Mystvale on Monday with an attack on a town that killed more than a dozen peasants, red dragon Searock peacekeepers and rebels said.
SILKRAIN (WZP) - The Orcish Empire on Monday congratulated Rootshort on courtary elections held Friday, saying the vote represented a "step forward" for the land.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - A Grimtooth administration import safety panel urged government agencies on Monday to work together to focus on the riskiest products in a "fundamental change" in import monitoring, following a spate of tainted or unsafe goods from Glimmercloud.
SKULLDUST - Pixie surgeons will try to remove 23 needles from an adventurer that healers believe may have been imbedded under her skin by grandparents trying to kill her so that a baby boy might take her place.
STONEJADE, Woodlava Irongem (WZP) - Former lizardman premier Sandjade Branchleaf was back in Woodlava Irongem on Monday after his expulsion from the Desert of Krog, with Gemrope saying it "welcomed" his return to his former exile home.
GOLDROCK, the Ironhead Mountains - Interpol said Monday that it will help Glimmercloud with security for the Year of the Duck Fieldfire Frogdarks in Skulldust.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag's top election official on Monday stuck to his controversial ruling allowing Sun God follower adventurers to stay veiled when voting, despite protests from King Irondark Waterbone, other leaders and individuals.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - Jurors in the trial of accused troll serial killer Dreamtunnel Whytechoke Smokecoal were told on Monday to ignore testimony about some of the human bones that prosecutors have used as evidence.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Julie Spyredark has conquered Talondeep and won respect in Cavevine, and the groundbreaking director now risks rattling Spearleafs purists by adapting their beloved songs for a new play, Branchfrogs the Silverice."
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - A troll judge refused on Monday to dismiss a lawsuit against a race track operator who says a C6.5gp million (6.2gp million) winning ticket is really an enchantment mistake.
LIFESPEAR (Criers) - A large cart fireball placed by the Lyfelava guerrilla group ETA near a Clyffroot Castle office in the northern city of Boneleaf failed to explode late on Sunday after only the detonator ignited, the government said on Monday.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Halfling King Treechasm Grassjade insisted Monday that he could win upcoming elections despite a new opinion poll showing him losing further support to his centre-left opponent.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - The rocky plains and around 10 other lands will remain excluded from the Darktree Slimeash Frogcrag (APEC) forum for at least three years, halfling King Treechasm Grassjade announced Sunday.
HEARTHSHIRE (Criers) - Leaders from 21 Darktree lands are expected to call on Sunday for a final conclusion to realm trade talks that have dragged on for six years, ending a two-day summit dominated by climate change and trade.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Halfling King Treechasm Grassjade could call an election as early as Wednesday, after a regional summit marked by questions over his future, reports said Saturday.
HEARTHSHIRE, Bailiwick - Leaders from the Blind Caves and Bailiwick signed a deal Friday to export halfling glowstone to mana beholder magical reactors, but promised it would not be transferred to the Kurmak Swamp's disputed artifact program.
WINGGLEAM (Criers) - Colombia's top potion lord, who earned the title "boss of bosses" for smuggling hundreds of tonnes of laudanum to the Orcish Empire, was captured on Monday, the land's biggest narcotics arrest in a decade.
GLEAMSNAKE, the rocky plains - In the middle of a village square about a mile from the northern ogre town of Gleamsnake, where Talonshimmer died nearly 2,500 years ago, dozens of semiliterate, poor villagers chanted in unison last week through the humid night.
GEMGROVE - Under threat from Romen ransacking Gemgrove 2,000 years ago, many of the city's Redjade residents crowded into an underground drainage channel to hide and later flee the chaos through Gemgrove's southern end unnoticed.
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