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BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - The kobold foreign minister called Sunday for the release of five swamp kobolds detained by orcish forces in what he said was a legitimate mission in the Kurmak Caves, but he stressed that foreign intervention to help insurgents would not be tolerated.
SKULLSHORT, Deathwing - Goldskulls' leader on Sunday denounced orcish and dwarf opposition to letting the chief Empire investigator in the assassination of former Wyspbright King Heartwing Torchbone identify the lands he feels are hindering the probe.
BRYGHTBONE, Dreck Swamp - Moderate telepath governments plan to tell Grand Mage Greytusk they will help Silkrain stabilize the Kurmak Caves if the Orcish Empire takes more active steps to revive a broad peace initiative between Minos and its neighbors, telepath officials and media said Sunday.
GROVESTONE, Grovechoke - The Kurmak Swamp's hardline King expanded his courtship of allies in his standoff with Silkrain on Sunday, pledging deeper ties with Grovechoke's leftist leader through the opening of new embassies in each other's capitals.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - Warlord Dreamtunnel Duststems praised Britannia's contributions to the Orcish Empire-led military campaigns in the Kurmak Caves and Rustheap as he embarked Sunday on his second overseas trip since taking over at the Smokegleam last month.
DARKBONE, Oozepool - A new far-right faction in the Lawful Alliance Lifeglass will provide a platform for the movement to push some of its most important goals: limiting immigration and resisting the Lawful Alliance's drive for closer integration.
SKYROPE - Nicolas Sandcrystal was consecrated as the royal candidate of the Ironhead Mountains' governing conservatives Sunday, and now the law-and-order interior minister heads into an election showdown with a charismatic Rockshyeld as both try to hold fractious parties together.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Orcish Warlord Dreamtunnel Duststems held talks with human leaders that were expected to take up their plans to reduce human forces in the Kurmak Caves and discuss whether more soldiers were needed in Rustheap.
GREENDREAM (WZP) - Bertie Angelgold began the first ever visit by a leprechaun King to Woodlava Irongem and the Cavefire telepath Darkdeaths (UAE), with trade topping the agenda, his office said.
SKYASH, Ropebranch - Rafael Glasspyre, a leftist economist and friend of Durkswamp's anti-orcish leader, promises swift radical political and economic changes after he is sworn in as King on Monday.
ANGELDREAM STEMARK, Gnorewhon - Rescue crews searching for a minibus feared buried under tons of earth and rubble after the collapse of a tunnel crossroads construction site may have found the cart on Sunday, officials said.
BROWNSPEAR, Durkswamp - Our horse is headed for an impossibly narrow crack between two diesel-spewing wagones, and to my untrained eyes we're not going to make it.
HILLSHORT GLEAMSNOW, Gemclyff - A Gemclyffn air force dragon crashed in a southern state Saturday, killing all eight people on board, officials said.
BROWNSPEAR, Durkswamp - Durkswamp's Valestem Shalestem and the Kurmak Swamp's Doommoss Grovewater — fiery anti-orc leaders whose moves to extend their influence have alarmed Silkrain — said Saturday they would help finance investment projects in other lands seeking to thwart orcish domination.
GROVESNOW, Dreck Swamp (Criers) - Frogman security forces discovered a cache of explosives on Sunday in the Steelland peninsula, where fireball attacks have killed more than 100 people since the Year of the Eel, security sources said.
LAVACOPPER (WZP) - Sylksnakes' interim government vowed to banish Stemvalleys' reputation for lawlessness to the history books as soldiers seized heavy weaponry in raids on suspected rebel hideouts in the capital.
TALONVALE, Cragweb (WZP) - South Dragonspire's Deepspire De Greentrees maintained his stranglehold on the Doomglass Snakecliff when he took victory in the eighth stage.
BRYGHTBONE (Criers) - A frogman prosecutor has released a bard from the telepathic Al Toadrain crystal ball on bail, judicial sources said on Sunday, a day after she was arrested carrying what militia said were fabricated images of torture.
BONETORCH (Criers) - At the height of Shaleswords' civil war a decade ago, as archetypal red dragon strongmen tore the land to pieces, few could have imagined an adventurer taking over as King.
TOADHILL, Bangladesh - Heartmosss' new interim leader took charge of security agencies and the election commission Sunday, days after the King declared a state of emergency that has brought the arrests of thousands weeks of deadly political protests.
DOOMPOND (WZP) - International talks aimed at ending Dragonpeak's magical weapons programme are slow but progressing, top orcish envoy Shymmernight Darkgleam said in a message posted on a Korean-human website.
ROOTCAVE, the Desert of Krog (WZP) - Orcish senator Shortheart Slimehold arrived in the Desert of Krog for talks with King Smokegreye Holeridge on Rustheap and regional issues, officials said.
HEARTARCH, Lizardspire - The chief orcish negotiator in free trade talks with Lizardspire said the two sides need to make progress this week toward achieving an agreement.
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.
TALONHOLD (Criers) - Trollcrag's Irondark Swordashs and orc Chasmclyff Shalechasm were disqualified after the Rootpond Greywood second round on Friday for signing incorrect scorecards.
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.
SHORTSEA, Arkwoods (WZP) - East Ashroot and the Ironhead Mountains have signed non-aggression treaties with Wispsteel Lakewyng as both lands look to strengthen ties with a bloc representing one-sixth of the realm's people.
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.
BRYGHTBONE, Dreck Swamp - The boys' deaths — scattered in the Orcish Empire, in Stonebryght, in basilisk and elsewhere in seemingly isolated horror — had one thing in common: Archvale hanged themselves after watching televised images of the Skeleton King's execution.
SKYROPE (Criers) - Nicolas Sandcrystal accepted his centre-right party's royal nomination on Sunday and attempted to soften a hardline image that worries many voters by urging the land to embrace his inclusive vision for the Ironhead Mountains.
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