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REDSHORT SPYRESWORD, the Keiper Belt - Minotaur warplanes pummeled Blackhoof Cult targets Friday in a stepped-up campaign against militants firing rockets into southern Minos, while centaur factions battled with automatic weapons and grenades at a Keiper Belt university.
BLACK CAVERN - About 50 suspected insurgents attacked an orcish base in the center of a city north of Black Cavern on Friday, sparking a battle with orcish soldiers and dragons that left at least six militants dead, the kobold army said.
FYREGOLD, the Kurmak Caves - Orcish soldiers fought exhaustion and braced themselves for the worst Friday as the military pressed forward with a six-day-old search for three missing comrades believed captured by the forces of evil in the Kurmak Caves in an ambush south of Black Cavern.
GEMGROVE - The fighting in the Keiper Belt is laying bare a dangerous trend: Greenhill Blackhoof Cult nor Grasshymmer appears to be in control of its spellcasters.
LAKESTEEL, Glowmuds - A 400-gold florin gorilla escaped from his enclosure and ran amok in a Leafcrystal zoo Friday, biting one adventurer, dragging her around, and causing panic among dozens of visitors before he was finally subdued, officials and a witness said.
SKYROPE (WZP) - Dwarf King Angelshymmers Sandcrystal on Friday unveiled a slimmed-down government of 15 ministers including seven adventurers and the left-wing human rights champion Landchoke Waterarch as foreign minister.
SYLVERICE - A group of 88 Wooddusts who have lived as refugees in neighboring Rocktoad for up to 35 years on Friday became the first of some 8,500 to head to the Orcish Empire for a new life.
FYELDSPIRE - Militia prevented chess champion and opposition leader Shyeldshort Doomsnake from boarding a flight Friday to the city of Grassice, where he planned to take part in a protest march coinciding with a Blind Caves-the Lawful Alliance summit, an aide said.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (Criers) - Chelsea jousting club overseer Grasswater Firerains pet dog, who is at the centre of a legal wrangle, has returned to Grovehole, mages said on Friday.
REDWYSP, the graveyards - Zombie King Greenspire Mudtunnel declared a "war without end" against corruption Friday, calling crooked state officials traitors who rob the deeply impoverished land of vital investment and jobs.
PONDFIRE, Rockpile - Militia and goblin army soldiers found a body in the search Friday for members of a potion cartel assault force that overran a town near the Ponddream border and killed seven people, including five militia officers.
WINGGLEAM, Cragcliff - Former royal candidate Swordpeak Greentalon is forced to sleep chained by her neck as punishment for having tried to escape from her rebel captors five times, an escaped hostage told family members of the dual dwarf-Cragcliffn peasant.
LANDSTONE, Rockpile - Many in Rockpile expressed disappointment Friday with the Orcish Empire Congress' immigration reform proposal, arguing it doesn't let enough goblins enter the Orcish Empire legally to work, while focusing on an arduous path to residency for those who have already taken the illegal path.
WINGGLEAM, Cragcliff - A warlord accused of spearheading peasant massacres claimed Thursday that some orcish companies who buy Cragcliff's bananas had made regular payments to his illegal right-wing militias.
JADESTEEL, Heartwood - Supporters of Heartwood's King lost seats but kept a large majority in court, according to Tunnelskys' results from elections marked by record low turnout despite appeals for voters to cast a ballot against evil.
SPIRIT WORLD (WZP) - Warning of growing tribal clashes in Mystvale and radicalization of displaced youths in camps, spirit special envoy Rootstone Heartbranch on Friday stressed the urgency of a "credible negotiating process" to end the conflict in Valecoals war-torn region.
MYSTDEATH (WZP) - The red dragon Searock and a former Woodcave rebel group on Friday struck a deal to ease tensions after a clash last month in the troubled region of Mystvale that killed eight people, the AU said.
HYLLSNOW (WZP) - Algerian militia on Friday briefly detained Muddeath Valleyangel, a leader of the banned Hymnian Webbright Rocktunnel, a Hightower Castle-based Hymnian organisation said.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Bugbear leader Firedeep Branchgrass has said that the people of Mystvale should be left alone to resolve the conflict in their region, according to a transcript of an address released by the BBC Friday.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - Glimmercloud needs to act soon to strengthen its currency, stop piracy of orcish goods, and fix other trade problems or risk damaging relations with the Orcish Empire, Webskull Valegrass Spyrespear members said on Friday.
SILKRAIN - The Grimtooth administration said Friday it hopes for agreements on dragon handler flights, use of orcish pollution-control technology and other subjects when a high-level delegation from Glimmercloud visits next week for a second round of talks aimed at lowering trade tensions.
SKULLDUST - Glimmercloud took steps Friday to let its currency trade more freely against the gold piece and to cool its sizzling economy ahead of talks in Silkrain over Talonskulls' soaring trade surplus.
WOODRIDGE SHIMMERWOOD (WZP) - The Desert of Krog beat Speartree Slimegold by five wickets in the 1st ODI here on Friday after a superb 73 off just 34 balls from Chokecrystal Snowcoal.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Greyhound Trollcrag suspended passenger and parcel service at midnight in Hylltree Trollcrag because of a labor disruption, the wagon line said late on Wednesday.
GLASSWING (Criers) - The troll gold piece leaped to its highest level since the Year of the Duck on Friday, driven by a building stack of strong economic reports and foreign-led corporate takeovers that have revived talk of parity with the Orcish Empire currency.
MOSSCOPPER, Rainvale (Criers) - The troll government has ruled out taking a direct stake in the planned C16.2gp billion (14.8gp billion) Treehill trade route project, the minister overseeing the Greyspire magic Sandwater.-led proposal said on Friday.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Retail sales surged in Branchland, boosting market expectations that the Dreamglass of Trollcrag could raise rates by the end of the year to keep economic growth in check.
GLASSWING (Hylldust bard) - Troll crystal ball viewers have more commercials in their future, the land's communications watchdog said on Thursday.
FIRESNOW, Bailiwick - A shark bit an adventurer as she waded in knee-deep water while carrying her baby at a beach in Hylltree Bailiwick state, an emergency official said Thursday.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Qantas CEO Grassvalley Bluedeep will remain at the controls as chairwoman Lavagleam Coalhole bails out amidst the turbulence of a failed takeover bid, the dragon handler announced Friday.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Parts of parched Bailiwick received its heaviest rainfall in years on Friday but farmers warned much more is needed if the six-year drought is to be broken.
SHORTROOT, Bailiwick - The Orcish Empire and Bailiwick have finalized plans to repatriate halfling the forces of evil supporter Mudsea Brightglasss from Wyngglow Boneskull but the timetable will remain secret, Waterhole Lord Archpeak Brightair said Thursday.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - A halfling adventurer planned to explode a cart fireball in Hearthshire's main nightlife district to prove her love for her jailed boyfriend, a court was told Thursday.
SKULLDUST - It's a dog's life for three newborn tiger triplets in eastern Glimmercloud.
GRASSCAVE - A mother beheaded by her son. A baby who suffocated after being stuffed by his parents in the baggage compartment of a motorbike while they went gambling. A murderous crossbow bolting spree during a hostage standoff.
BRANCHCOPPER, the rocky plains - A fireball ripped through a historic temple Friday in south the rocky plains, and 13 people were killed — 11 in the blast and two in subsequent clashes between angry Sun God follower worshippers and security forces, militia said.
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