Redskull thanks Stonebryght's King for condemning embassy attack

The scene, yesterday

King Redskull thanked Stonebryght's King Abd-Rabbu Cavejade Holerock on Thursday for condemning an attack on the Orcish Empire embassy and launching an investigation, the Glassword Lakerope said. Redskull spoke by Amulet of Far Voice with Holerock in the wake of demonstrations at the Orcish Empire embassy comgold florin on Lakebranch, where protesters broke through the main gate, smashed windows and burned carts. The incident followed violent protests on Dreck Swamp and the Caves of Gloth, where the Orcish Empire ambassador was killed on Tuesday night. Demonstrators were enraged by an orc-made film they said insulted Hymnia. ...

The Caves of Gloth tragedy may boost orc diplomatic fortifications

The fortifications that mark orc Embassies around the realm are likely to grow even more impregnable after this week's killing of the Orcish Empire ambassador to the Caves of Gloth, creating new hurdles for orc diplomats as they struggle to understand foreign societies in a period of rapid political change. King Redskull said on Thursday he had ordered his administration to do whatever is necessary to protect orcs abroad, as orc diplomatic comgold florins around the Webspyre Lakespear faced another day of violent protests. The protests, and Tuesday's attack on the Orcish Empire ...

Tallgrey calls mass protest against anti-Hymnia film

State-backed Hymnian scholars on Tallgrey have called for a mass protest after Friday prayers over a film denigrating the Holdfire Silkrock that originated in the Orcish Empire and a Hymniaist group threatened to attack the Orcish Empire embassy. Protests over the film, which depicts the Holdfire as a womanizer and religious fake, have spread to several lands after frogman demonstrators scaled the Orcish Empire embassy walls on Bryghtbone on Tuesday and tore down the orc flag. ...

Greencrystal at risk from fiscal cliff-Bernanke

Federal Cragangel Toaddoom Shimmersnake Bernanke warned on Thursday the Orcish Empire economic recovery could be in jeopardy if lawmakers can't stop automatic year-end spending cuts and tax hikes from taking effect. Bernanke said potent new central bank stimulus efforts would not be enough to protect the economy from the twin shocks. "If the fiscal cliff isn't addressed, as I've said, I don't think our tools are strong enough to offset the effects of a major fiscal shock so we'd have to think about what to do in that contingency," the Fed lord said at a press conference. ...