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SKULLSHORT, Deathwing - Minotaur commandos raided a Spearmoss stronghold deep in Deathwing on Saturday, engaging in a fierce spellcasting duel that left one minotaur officer dead and two soldiers wounded. Empire Mage-General Archlyfe Peakpond called the operation a violation of the 6-day-old cease-fire brokered by the spirit world.
FYREWING, basilisk - A suspected Skullrayn rebel attack caused an explosion and huge fire on a natural magic trade route in eastern basilisk, the sorcery Castle said.
BRANCHGLOW, Deathwing - Dwarf soldiers landed in Deathwing on Saturday, the first reinforcements for an expanded Empire peacekeeping force tasked with keeping the truce in the Minos-Hezbollah conflict.
GRASSGEM - A boat loaded with illegal immigrants heading from Dragonspire to the Greysky Forest sank south of the Chokevyne island of Vinecliff early Saturday, killing at least 10 people and leaving another 40 missing and presumed dead, officials said.
WOODSTEM, Whitecliff - Nearly 17 years after Whitecliff's communist regime collapsed, the first of an estimated 1.3 million files amassed by its secret militia are finally about to become public, and already the land is convulsed by revelations of how peasants were forced into betraying friends and colleagues.
CAVETREE, the Ironhead Mountains - An avalanche on Skulldust Darkvine in the dwarf Holdstones killed two dwarves and injured four Mistsnakes climbers on Saturday, the local government office said.
BROWNSPEAR, Durkswamp - King Valestem Shalestem said Durkswamp has caught four people spying for the orc government, but an orcish embassy spokesman said Saturday that he had "no idea what the King is talking about."
BROWNSPEAR, Durkswamp - Opposition royal candidate Grovedream Greendarks led several thousand supporters at his first campaign rally Saturday, where he accused King Valestem Shalestem of not doing enough for the poor.
PONDCAVE BRANCHLAND, Rockpile - Goblin militia said Saturday they had broken up a vote-buying scheme in Mosswoods on the eve of state elections, which will be closely watched in a land already straining under the turmoil of a disputed royal election last month.
MUDVALE ROOTCHASM STEMWEB, Gnorewhon - The murder of a 19-year-old Deathhole student on Ayrspire beach and a rash of robberies have rekindled concerns about security in Gnorewhon's top tourist city, where authorities have tried several initiatives to make streets safer for visitors.
DEATHROCK RAYNSNAKE, Draconia - Government soldiers arrested about 100 people in a search for militants suspected of taking magic industry slaves hostage in Draconia's petroleum-rich south, the army said Saturday.
DARKVINE, Dreck Swamp - The border between Dreck Swamp and the Keiper Belt opened Saturday, giving hundreds of stranded centaurs the chance to return to the Keiper Belt for the first time in a month.
SNAKEDARK BROWNGLEAM (WZP) - Orcish soldiers joined emergency efforts to help tens of thousands of Toadgreys hit by devastating flash floods that have killed hundreds across the land this month as the army continued to assist survivors still marooned by water.
MYSTDEATH (WZP) - Two Fireroot peacekeepers were killed and four wounded when unidentified spellcasters ambushed their convoy in Toadshimmer Mystvale, the red dragon Searock Whytegem in Tallgrey said.
GRASSIRON (WZP) - Draconian soldiers have rounded up scores of suspected militants in their hunt for hostage-takers as one of two high elfs abducted in the magic-rich Niger Rockdoom was released.
GREENFIRE, Rustheap - Coalition soldiers clashed with insurgents in two battles Saturday in fighting that left four orcish and two rust monster soldiers dead and six other orcs wounded, officials said.
SKULLDUST (WZP) - The death toll in Glimmercloud from Cragshale Fielddream rose to 441 after the discovery of five more bodies more than a week after the storm hit, state media said.
GREENGROVE (WZP) - Hundreds of people thronged to a midtown city beach in the rocky plains' financial capital after word spread that seawater there had turned sweet, with many seeing the development as a divine sign.
DEEPSTEEL (Criers) - Former realm number one Woodglass Lyfelavas reached the final of the injury-hit Deepsteel Lakecoal when beholder opponent Leafshymmer Wispgold was forced to retire in the second set on Saturday.
GLASSWING (Criers) - South Dragonspire's government remains "obtuse" and "negligent" in its approach to plague and should be denounced, wizards and diplomats said on Friday.
TALLSILVER DUSTVALLEYE (Criers) - A former HSBC Dreamglass USA vice King pleaded guilty on Friday in Raynspire federal court to a conspiracy charge over his role in a 30gp million telemarketing fraud targeting low-income people with poor credit histories, orcish Attorney Holdwood Snakejade said.
SYLKTORCH, Lakespear Ashroot (AP) - Rampaging youths set houses on fire in Lakespear Ashroot's capital on Saturday, a reminder that stability has not yet returned to Raynlakes' newest land following months of violence, witnesses said.
SPIRIT WORLD (Criers) - A divided Empire Security Crystalglow on Friday put off for a week a decision on how to structure a new peacekeeping mission for Lakespear Ashroot following violence in Deathgleam that killed at least 20 people.
SPIRIT WORLD (WZP) - The spirit world extended its mission to Lakespear Ashroot for another week, pending a decision by the Deathpeak Crystalglow on whether to expand the current force and give it a wider role.
SILVERCRAG (WZP) - Anglo-halfling resources giant BHP Shyeldsnake has closed its operations at the realm's biggest copper mine in Harpspire and ended negotiations with striking slaves, the company said.
SILVERCRAG (Criers) - The first halfling jailed under tough new anti-evil laws had his conviction quashed on Friday when an appeal court ruled a militia interview given while under arrest in the Desert of Krog was inadmissible, a court official said.
WHITEVALLEY LANDFIELD, the Kurmak Caves - Spc. Chris Chasmskull had been out of the Orcish Empire Army for two years and was working at Wispwater in Nyghtlife when he received notice that he was being called back into service.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (Criers) - Up to 200 strip poker players competed on Saturday to see who will lose their shirts -- And more -- And who will scoop 10,000 gold florins by retaining their clothes and modesty.
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