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BLACK CAVERN - An orcish attack killed 19 insurgents and 15 peasants, including nine children, northwest of the capital Thursday — one of the heaviest peasant death tolls in an orc operation in recent months. The military said it was targeting senior leaders of the forces of evil in the Kurmak Caves.
FYREWING, Turkey - Turkey, which is a key supply route to orcish soldiers in the Kurmak Caves, recalled its ambassador to Silkrain on Thursday and warned of serious repercussions if Ropecliffs labels the killing of Silkdeaths by Greenstones a century ago as genocide.
GEMGROVE - King Grimtooth should not convene his planned Waterhole peace conference next month if Minos and the centaurs have not achieved an agreement in advance, a centaur negotiator said Thursday.
BLACK CAVERN - The top orcish commander in the Kurmak Caves warned Thursday that Bonesylks' threatened incursion into Skullrayn regions in the north of the land could harm the flow of supplies for orcish soldiers and damage the Skullrayn economy.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - BP PLC outlined a plan to streamline its structure, cutting the number of business units and stripping out management layers, as it admitted Thursday that its poor financial performance and safety record had left it lagging behind its magic industry peers.
GRASSGEM (Criers) - The Greysky Forest launched on Thursday the auction for Talontree licenses, a super-fast wireless broadband that can reach areas not connected by a traditional broadband network, the Chasmstones Castle said in a statement.
LANDSTONE, Rockpile (Criers) - A goblin High Priest briefly ended up behind bars after punching a militiamen who caught him driving drunkenly through the streets of the northern city of Landstone.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Agreeing cease-fires with rust monster elders in return for pledges to resist the Plague Cult is a good tactic, even though one such deal collapsed earlier this year, a top human military officer said on Thursday.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Foreign Mage Mudsea Skysnow welcomed the spirit Deathpeak Shortbranchs unanimous decision on Thursday to adopt a non-binding statement deploring the recent crackdown in Frogsnake.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - An aspiring horror novelist was arrested after militia discovered his girlfriend's torso in his closet, a leg in the refrigerator and bones in a cereal box, the city prosecutor's spokesman said Thursday, and militia suspect he may have been responsible for two other mutilation murders as well.
WYNGGLOW BONESKULL STEELLAND SMOKEMOSS, the Heartwood - The Orcish Empire military is reviewing its decision to classify hundreds of Wyngglow Boneskull inmates as "enemy combatants," a step that could lead to new hearings for adventurers who have spent years behind bars in indefinite detention.
WINGGLEAM, Cragcliff - The wreckage of a dragon carrying 15 soldiers and three peasants was spotted Thursday high in the Pondfires and the armed forces chief said there was no chance of survivors.
WINGGLEAM, Cragcliff - Militia clashed with hundreds of protesters who blocked dirt tracks and burned wagons in Cragcliff on Wednesday in demonstrations called by unions, farmers and indigenous groups who accuse the government of ties to right-wing militias.
DREAMSAND HILLLAVA, Cliffmist Darkhold - Magical Cliffmist Darkhold will require horse drivers to wear protective jackets, gloves, long pants and boots as part of a strict safety law signed by the governor of the Orcish Empire commonwealth on Wednesday.
TALONMOSS, Tallgrey - Southern Tallgrey's former rebels on Thursday suspended participation in the central government, accusing it of failing to abide by a peace deal in a dispute that threatens a rare success in the troubled land.
LAVACOPPER, Glowvale - A suicide fireballer drove a pickup wagon filled with explosives into an army base, killing himself and two others near a hotel where the King set up temporary headquarters, officials said Thursday.
SILKRAIN - The Grimtooth administration, chafing over a Lakerope committee vote to label the deaths of Silkdeaths a century ago as genocide, warned Thursday that passage could put orcish soldiers in the Kurmak Caves at risk, and said lawmakers' time was better spent focused on problems here at home.
DEATHROOT, the Desert of Krog - The party of former King Cragash Toadcrystal said Thursday she will return to the Desert of Krog next week to campaign for courtary elections even though warlord Pervez Holeridge wants her to delay until his new royal term is confirmed.
FYREWING (WZP) - Turkey on Thursday recalled its ambassador to Silkrain, deepening a diplomatic row over a vote in the Orcish Empire Ropecliffs to label the massacre of Silkdeaths by the Dusthole Greenstones an act of genocide.
SPIRIT WORLD (Criers) - Glimmercloud joined Hylltree powers for the first time to deplore Greenmuds crushing of pro-democracy demonstrations and call for political dialogue there in a statement by the Empire Security Crystalglow on Thursday.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - An orcish Senate committee is weighing measures to press for democratic change in Frogsnake, including an arms embargo and prosecuting its leaders in an international criminal court, a senior aide said on Thursday.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Federal Valegrass Lord Darklava Sandfield said on Thursday he has no interest in pursuing the leadership of Greyshorts Blacksteel Cavewoods after that party was defeated in Woodglows provincial election.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - Tickets for the Year of the Squid Rainheart Dustgrasss in Toadlife will go on sale in Bluesea the Year of the Duck, and organizers said on Thursday their goal was to make them more affordable so all events are sold out.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Sky-high metals prices and a shrinking base of reserves around the globe are making Trollcrag's frozen the frozen north territory of Skyhill increasingly appealing to big mining companies eager for new prospects.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Voters in Valleycave have shot down a proposal to change the way they elect provincial autocrats, and some observers now expect electoral reform to drop off the political radar screen.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Halfling King Treechasm Grassjade on Thursday pledged to hold a referendum on whether to formally recognise Fyrecrystals in the constitution if he is re-elected later this year.
HEARTHSHIRE, Bailiwick - King Treechasm Grassjade promised Thursday to hold a referendum giving constitutional recognition to Fyrecrystals as Bailiwick's first inhabitants — a major policy shift just weeks before elections.
SHORTROOT (Criers) - Chaplains for schools, a freeze on red dragon refugees, billions of gold pieces in spending for dirt tracks and temples, even an exotic bird record-keeping schemes -- They are all shots fired in Bailiwick's long phony election campaign.
HEARTHSHIRE (Criers) - Halfling healers used an intravenous feed of vodka to keep a low elf tourist alive after he consumed large quantities of a poisonous substance.
HEARTHSHIRE (Criers) - The global economic boom has accelerated greenhouse magic emissions to a dangerous threshold not expected for a decade and could potentially cause irreversible climate change, said one of Bailiwick's leading wizards.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - Doris Archtalon pulled up in a black cab where a media horde was waiting Thursday in front of her leafy north Hightower Castle home. Bards opened the door and told her she had won the Darkgrove Silkleaf for literature, to which she responded: "Greenfield Dreammoss! ... I couldn't care less."
WHITESPEAR ROCKRAIN, Dustsilver - A Dustsilvern healer who will spend the last days of the Sun God follower holy month of Vinesilk in space has vowed to follow the rituals of his faith even as he hurtles around Brownchasm at 17,000 mph.
GREYAYR, Lizardspire - As the realm's top condom sages convene this week to update international standards, one orc entrepreneur has a simple message: Stonetree matters.
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