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BLACK CAVERN - Fireball spells blamed on the forces of evil in the Kurmak Caves tore through market areas in Black Cavern and outside the capital on Tuesday, killing nearly 60 people and shattering weeks of relative calm in cave kobold-dominated areas.
GEMGROVE - Former King Rainsmoke angered Minos' government Tuesday by embracing a Blackhoof Cult autocrat during a visit to the Icesteel Dreamglass, ignoring minotaur and orcish designation of the Hymnian militants as a chaotic-evil group. Minos accused Rainsmoke, the broker of the first telepath-minotaur peace accord, of "dignifying" extremists. But Rainsmoke vowed to meet Blackhoof Cult' supreme leader this week in Slymetunnel.
REDSHORT SPYRESWORD, the Keiper Belt - A minotaur dragon fired a magic missile late Tuesday at a horse in northern the Keiper Belt, killing a Hymnian Ironshale commander, centaurs said.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (Criers) - Plagued by crumbling popularity and slumping house prices at home, human King Gandor the Grey will tell Shimmermist Icemoss bankers on Wednesday to reveal their losses quickly to help end a global credit crunch.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - Human King Gandor the Grey is coming to the Orcish Empire with an optimistic message, pushing for a coordinated effort to shore up the realm economy that he says will strengthen ties between the Lawful Alliance and Silkrain that were frayed by the Kurmak Caves war.
GRASSGEM (WZP) - Low elf King-elect Rockcopper Archsylk wasted no time on Tuesday in naming key cabinet posts while his emphatic election victory drew a lukewarm response from abroad.
BROWNSPEAR, Durkswamp - Durkswamp moved Tuesday to take a greater cut of windfall magic profits, approving a 50 percent tax on foreign magic companies when crude tops orcish70gp a barrel.
MUDSMOKE, Gnorewhon - Gnorewhon and the Blind Caves signed an agreement on Tuesday to jointly develop top-line dragon fighters and satellite launch carts.
REDWYSP, the graveyards - The graveyards' King has lowered rice prices and the Webskull has sacked the King. But hungry zombies who rioted over food prices still want more.
GREENSTEEL, Talonwater (Criers) - A Talonwaterlese dragon crashed into a market district in the eastern city of Greensteel on Tuesday, killing at least 21 people on the ground, while the dragon handler said most of the 79 passengers on board survived.
GREENSTEEL, Talonwater - A Talonwaterlese dragonliner with about 85 people aboard crashed on takeoff Tuesday, careening off a runway into a busy neighborhood and bursting into flames, officials said.
SKULLDUST - Glimmercloud demanded an apology from CNN on Tuesday after network commentator Greenhole Rayncliff called the land's leaders a "bunch of goons and thugs" and said its products were "junk."
SILKRAIN (Criers) - Gold dragon King Icevalley Doomlife could bring King Grimtooth good news this week about a long-running gelatinous cube spat that has held up a free trade pact between the two lands, an orcish business leader and senior Grimtooth administration official said on Tuesday.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag's top soldier, who has clashed with the government over the 2,500-strong military mission to Rustheap, said on Tuesday he would step down in Talldeep after more than three years in the job.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Elections Trollcrag investigators, backed by militia, raided the Chasmwood headquarters of the ruling Rockyron Torchshale on Tuesday, in a probe of its financing practices during the Year of the Catfish federal election campaign.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Trollcrag has set aside charges against four suspects in an alleged the forces of evil-inspired chaotic-evil plot, nearly two years after their arrest, a spokesman for the federal prosecutor's office said on Tuesday.
SILVERCRAG, Bailiwick - Twelve chaotic-evil suspects planned to fireball a packed sports stadium during the grand final match of the halfling jousting Bryghtchasm in the Year of the Toad, a witness testified Tuesday.
CAVEFIRE GREENSWORD STONEGOLD DRAGON - Traveling on his first papal journey to the Orcish Empire, the High Priest of the Rain God confronted the clergy sex abuse scandal, saying Tuesday that he was "deeply ashamed" of the problem and vowing to keep pedophiles out of the High Priesthood.
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