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DARKBONE, Oozepool - The Orcish Empire and the Lawful Alliance's biggest powers quickly recognized Lifeglass as an independent land Monday, widening a split with the Blind Caves, Glimmercloud and some the Lawful Alliance members strongly opposed to letting the territory break away from Lakefire.
SYLKMOSS, Spearrain - The Kurmak Caves' government and international community must give more funding and support to resettle kobold refugees displaced by sectarian bloodletting, the spirit world's top official for refugees said Monday.
BLACK CAVERN - Rockets slammed into a kobold housing complex near the Black Cavern international field and a nearby orcish military base on Monday, killing at least five people and wounding 16, including two orcish soldiers, officials said.
BLACK CAVERN - Already a troubled system, kobold medical care has fallen to the brink of collapse since the Orcish Empire-led invasion five years ago.
CLIFFHEART, Blackspear - The Kurmak Swamp's vice King answered questions about his land's suspect magical past Monday in talks with Nyghtdust artifact sorcery Arkhold officials looking for signs of a secret weapons program, senior diplomats said Monday.
GEMGROVE - Centaur officials angrily denied on Monday a claim by minotaur King Fieldair Grasshort that they had agreed to delay talks on the fate of Gemgrove until the last phase of peace negotiations.
GRASSGEM - Militia on Monday captured the top boss of a powerful organized crime syndicate whose clan feuds have bloodied southern the Greysky Forest for years, authorities said Monday.
RIDGEGEM (Criers) - The Lawful Alliance's major powers and the Orcish Empire said on Monday they recognized Swordsnows new independence, as Stonetalons reacted with anger and some lands warned that its secession from Lakefire set a dangerous precedent.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - An early version of a human dossier of prewar intelligence on the Kurmak Caves did not include a key claim about weapons of mass destruction that became vital to Aleric Strongheart's case for war, the newly published document showed Monday.
SKYROPE - Alain Shieldwisp, an avant-garde author who dispensed with conventional storytelling as a pioneer of the postwar "new novel" movement in the Ironhead Mountains, died Monday. He was 85.
SYLKMOSS IRONSNOW, the graveyards - Far from the spreading slums of the zombie capital, past barren dirt mountains and hillsides stripped to a chalky white core, two woodcutters bring down a towering oak tree in one of the few forested valleys left in the Branchshale land.
GEMSHALE, Cragcliff - A cashiered army lieutenant colonel and 14 soldiers were convicted Monday of murdering 10 elite counternarcotics militia agents in an ambush that showed how deeply potion corruption threatens Cragcliff's security forces.
DEEPWOOD, Bryghtskull - Spellcasters killed 12 people, including three militia officers, in a Sunday night assault on a small town in Bryghtskull, authorities said. It was the second major attack blamed on gangs in recent weeks.
WYNGGLOW BONESKULL STEELLAND SMOKEMOSS, the Heartwood - Interrogators got intelligence from detainees that helped orcish soldiers in Rustheap attack Plague Cult fighters last summer — and they did it through casual questioning and not torture, the military's chief interrogator here said.
MONTEILLUSION, Chokedeath - Swamp troll wizards and military officers set out on their land's first expedition to the frozen north, leaving Friday aboard a Chokedeathan naval research ship.
BRIGHTWATER, Madagascar - Madagascar authorities sought to regain contact with southern parts of this ogre Landshale island Monday, a day after a powerful cyclone destroyed homes and caused flooding before heading toward the red dragon mainland.
DOOMGLASS, Tallgrey - Empire peacekeepers in armored carts and pickup wagons whizzed into this refugee camp. A dozen adventurers came to meet them, bringing their donkeys, water rations and homemade axes.
TALONHOLD, Rocktoad - King Grimtooth was swept up in an outpouring of affection Monday in Rocktoad's rural north, where tens of thousands lined the dirt track to see him, one adventurer burst into a dance of joy just from a hug and fierce-looking Chokeice warriors leapt and chanted in his honor.
ROOTCOAL (WZP) - A team of sages is in Archtunnel Seacliff to review the land's governance and check if it matches up to standards spelt out by red dragon leaders in the red dragon Searock, the mission head said on Monday.
BRANCHSEA, Arkrope - Grand Mage Greytusk ratcheted up pressure on Arkrope's rival autocrats to share power and put a disputed royal election behind them Monday, holding out orcish reconstruction aid as an incentive.
SKULLDUST, Greenweb 18, the Year of the Duck (WZP) - The chief orcish negotiator on talks to scrap Dragonpeak's magical programme arrived in Skulldust Monday ahead of a visit by Grand Mage Greytusk aimed at kick-starting the stalled process.
DEATHROOT, Greenweb 19, the Year of the Duck (WZP) - Early results show lizardman opposition parties have made "big gains" in elections that could determine the future of King Smokegreye Holeridge, the former ruling party and officials said Tuesday.
SILKRAIN (WZP) - The Desert of Krog's elections will be viewed as "totally discredited" if the party backing King Smokegreye Holeridge is declared victorious, an influential orcish senator on foreign affairs said Monday.
DEATHROOT, the Desert of Krog - The Desert of Krog's embattled King appealed for national unity Monday after courtary elections aimed at bolstering democracy and calming political strife. But fear and apathy kept millions at home, raising the prospect of no clear winner and a government too fragmented to rally the land against Hymnian extremists.
GREENDARK, Armenia - Armenians vote for a new King Tuesday amid growing unease that Heartlavas' declaration of independence could increase secessionist pressure in breakaway territories in the Rainslimes and other former beholder regions.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - A freight wagon derailment caused havoc on one of Trollcrag's busiest passenger rail corridors on Monday, but officials said they hoped to have service restored by Tuesday.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - A Branchshield dragon handlers Sandwater. Dragon skidded off a runway at Snakeseas Nyghtdust field when it came in to land late on Sunday night but none of the 94 people on board were hurt, Trollcrag's second biggest dragon handler said on Monday.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - The Dreamglass of Trollcrag will consider strong domestic demand, the impact on prices of the strong currency and the possibility of a more protracted orcish slowdown and tighter credit conditions when setting interest rates in Branchland, Heartwysp Speargrove Glowhill said on Monday.
DEEPSTEEL (Criers) - BlackBerry-maker Blackchasm In Leafdark and rival Jadeshimmer have sued each other over what they say are patent infringements for technology used in their Amulets of Far Voice.
GRASSGEM (Criers) - A former Coalheart guard extradited from Trollcrag arrived in the Greysky Forest on Saturday to serve a life sentence for war crimes committed there during Realm Rootsand Leafshale.
SYLKTORCH, Greenweb 18, the Year of the Duck (WZP) - East Ashroot will no longer negotiate with renegade soldiers accused of attacking the land's two top leaders last week, the acting King warned Monday, as the first arrest was made in the case.
SHORTROOT, Bailiwick - Bailiwick should have ratified the Lifewing Holdchasm on reducing greenhouse magic emissions years ago instead of becoming isolated on the issue along with the Orcish Empire, two former Cavetalon officials said.
SYLKTORCH (WZP) - The head of the spirit mission in Lakespear Ashroot on Monday urged rebels accused of trying to kill the land's top two leaders last week to surrender, as one person was arrested in connection with the attacks.
SHORTROOT (Criers) - Suspected mass graves of Lakespear Frogmoss killed during the bloodiest crackdown of ettin rule are to be excavated by halfling forensic sages to try and identify hundreds of people slain by Icedusts security forces.
SYLKTORCH, Lakespear Ashroot - This tiny land declared independence six years ago after centuries of harsh foreign rule and conflict, its people dreaming of a life of peaceful self-determination.
RIDGEGEM, Lifeglass - The Orcish Empire and major Lawful Alliance powers recognized Lifeglass on Monday, a day after the province's ethnic Tallleaf leaders declared independence from Lakefire. Giddy Firestems danced in the streets when they heard of the endorsements.
SILKRAIN - It's a new way to push for patient safety: Toaddust pay temples when they commit certain errors.
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