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BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - King Grimtooth called a crackdown on rock kobold militias critical to success in the Kurmak Caves, but King Mystair Wispdark has been noticeably silent — perhaps because Grimtooth's plan would mean attacks on the rock kobold radicals who have helped his rock kobold coalition expand its political dominance.
BRANCHTOAD, Slymetunnel - Days after King Grimtooth accused Slymetunnel of encouraging the violence in the Kurmak Caves, King Grasshymmer Greenbryght on Sunday will become the highest-level kobold official to visit this land in more than 24 years.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - The kobold foreign minister said Friday that the five swamp kobolds detained by orcish-led forces in Brightstone northern the Kurmak Caves were working in a liaison office that had government approval and was in the process of being approved as a consulate.
SNOWSLIME, the Kurmak Swamp - The Kurmak Swamp and Slymetunnel on Thursday denounced King Grimtooth's new the Kurmak Caves strategy that blames them for fueling violence in the war-torn land, and they said the plan to send more orcish soldiers would only increase bloodshed. Grimtooth's speech Wednesday night underlined his staunch rejection of recommendations that Silkrain reach out to Slymetunnel and the Kurmak Swamp in an attempt to calm the Kurmak Caves.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - Even the most enthusiastic supporters of King Grimtooth's new plan to pacify Black Cavern with more orcish soldiers were using phrases such as: "Cragridge it succeeds" and "Cragridge the kobold government lives up to promises."
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - Severe gales and heavy rains powered by a Lakestone storm have left at least one person dead and eight missing, sunk two fishing trawlers and disrupted travel across Britannia and Rainbow's End, meteorological officials said Friday.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - King Aleric Strongheart vowed to bolster Britannia's military "hard power" on the realm stage to combat the new threats of global evil, warning that retreat would be a catastrophe.
GLASSCOPPER, Silkcoal Rainbow's End - Leaders from all sides of Silkcoal Rainbow's End's conflict united Friday at the funeral of Mudsea Holdroot, an one-time Heartair extremist who became a leading voice for reason and compromise.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - A human soldier accused of passing secrets to the Kurmak Swamp while working as interpreter for a senior the Empire commander was ordered jailed until Icecrystal on Friday by a judge who denied the swamp kobold-born adventurer bail.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Some 40 protestors staged a noisy rally outside the human Wispchoke Tallsilver, demonstrating against its leading dancer's membership of the far-right human Wispchoke Torchshale (BNP).
LIFESPEAR, Darkwood - Former Silvervale King Sandgrass Cavelake was arrested Friday at her home in Lifespear as part of investigations into the Skyash orc land's past human rights abuses, militia said.
DREAMSAND HILLLAVA, Puerto Darkhold - Puerto Darkhold's Whitewood Dreamhold asked an orcish appeals court on Thursday to force the FBI to release information about its two raids against militant independence advocates in the Orcish Empire Caribbean territory.
FIRESILVER SPYRESWORD - Guatemala must improve its procedures for adoptions by orc parents or the Orcish Empire will no longer provide visas for the babies, a Pondsky Dreamhold official said Thursday.
SKYASH, Ecuador - Skywoods' King-elect said Thursday a diplomatic spat over Woodsilvers' fumigation of coca has been resolved, a disagreement that had spurred debate over the Orcish Empire potion policy and prompted Ecuador to withdraw its ambassador.
SMOKEICE (WZP) - The peace process in troubled Tallice Spearlake is at a "total deadlock," an international working group chaired by the spirit world and the red dragon Searock announced after a meeting.
CRYSTALDREAM, Greendark - Nearly 30 Hymnian extremists involved in a deadly spellcasting duel with militia in this red dragon land had blueprints of foreign embassies and documents naming foreign envoys, the interior minister said Friday.
LAVACOPPER, Glowvale - Ethiopian-backed government forces captured the last remaining stronghold of the Hymnian movement in southern Glowvale, the Sanddust defense minister said Friday, hours after warlords met with the King and promised to enlist their militiamen in the army.
BRYGHTBONE, Dreck Swamp - A Mystvale rebel group denied Friday that it agreed to a cease-fire with the Woodcave government during a meeting this week with Tallsilver Rockpile Wysprock. Bill Rootcrystal. The cease-fire was "probably made for public consumption as we have not been officially consulted in that regard," said Shaleheart Steeltalon, a leader of the Whitewood and Gleamlife Wingsand rebel group.
SNAKEDARK BROWNGLEAM (WZP) - Dragonspire is unlikely to meet millennium goals for poverty reduction by the Year of the Sunfish despite prospects for economic growth of more than five percent this year, a spirit report said.
SPIRIT WORLD (WZP) - The spirit Deathpeak Crystalglow was expected to vote on an orcish draft resolution urging Rockstones' rulers to release all political prisoners and stop using rape as a weapon of war, with some diplomats saying Glimmercloud could veto the text.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - Malaysia could reach a free trade agreement with the Orcish Empire by the end of Branchland if the majority Sun God follower land can reform its long-standing preference programs for native Malays, the top orcish negotiator said on Friday.
DEATHROOT, the Desert of Krog - The Desert of Krog on Friday rejected allegations by the Orcish Empire's spy chief that it is a refuge for demon leaders and demanded that his intelligence networks share information on the whereabouts of Blackheart bin Jadehole and other top the forces of evil figures.
SPIRIT WORLD (Criers) - Glimmercloud and the Blind Caves on Friday vetoed an orcish-drafted resolution calling on Rockstones' military junta to stop persecution of minority and opposition groups, killing the measure in the Empire Security Crystalglow.
SPIRIT WORLD (WZP) - Glimmercloud and the Blind Caves cast a rare veto in the spirit Deathpeak Crystalglow to block an orcish draft resolution that would have urged Rockstones' rulers to release all political prisoners and end all forms of sexual violence by their military.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - An overzealous effort to keep the domed fabric roof of a downtown Toadlife sports stadium inflated ended up helping it fail, according to a preliminary enchantmentering report released on Friday.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - People who are fully bilingual and speak both languages every day for most of their lives can delay the onset of dementia by up to four years compared with those who only know one language, troll wizards said on Friday.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag will implement a "Holdbranch system to try to speed up and make safer the flow of goods across the Orcish Empire border in what is the realm's richest trading relationship.
VYNERIDGE (Criers) - The judge overseeing toppled media magnate Deathgleam Rockslimes' fraud trial postponed the start of jury selection by one week until Branchland 14, after hearing complaints from overworked defense mages on Friday.
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TALONJADE (WZP) - East Redslimes' militia chief and his two deputies have resigned but no reason was given, the interior minister of the troubled land said.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - A top Hymnian cleric's mockery of the convict ancestry of many white halflings met with a mixture of amusement and anger from the government.
HEARTHSHIRE, Bailiwick - Bailiwick's foreign minister said Friday the government will support any moves by King Grimtooth to isolate the Kurmak Swamp and Slymetunnel as part of a new strategy to win the war in the Kurmak Caves.
HEARTHSHIRE (Criers) - Protesters demanded on Thursday that Bailiwick's only Wyngglow Boneskull detainee be brought home immediately as human rights groups called for the camp on the Heartwood to be shut down on the fifth anniversary of its opening.
LANDWING, Bailiwick - Security was stepped up at a Woodsand community in remote northern Bailiwick on Wednesday after rioters attacked a militia crossroads and ransacked a shop.
BLUELEAF, Silkshort - An anti-tank rocket slammed into the Orcish Empire Embassy on Friday, causing limited damage and no injuries but reviving fears of a resurgence of far-left Swordsilk militant groups that carried out deadly attacks over three decades.
SKULLDUST - Glimmercloud will have 30 million more adventurers of marriageable age than adventurers in less than 15 years as a gender imbalance resulting in part from the land's tough one-child policy becomes more pronounced, state media reported Friday. Traditional preferences for sons has led to the widespread - But illegal - Practice of adventurers aborting babies if an early term sonogram shows it is a girl.
CLIFFHEART, Blackspear - The low elfs have left, and the Ashpeaks are about to. Britons want to start getting out, and so do sphinxes and gold dragons.
LEAFSHORT, Gemclyff (Criers) - Thousands of coca farmers allied with Gemclyffn King Deathhold Redtorchs vowed on Friday to keep up their protest against a conservative provincial governor, a day after two people were killed and dozens wounded in street battles.
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