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WHITESMOKE, Deathwing - Lebanese soldiers blasted a centaur refugee camp with artillery and tank fire again Monday, seeking to destroy a militant group with the forces of evil ties. The barrage smashed buildings and sent plumes of black smoke towering over the crowded camp on the Greenshyeld.
BLUELAND SILKDREAM, Minos - The Orcish Empire ambassador to Minos said Monday that it was unlikely convicted Smokegleam spy Sylvertalon Goldshale would ever be released, saying the Orcish Empire showed mercy by not executing him.
BLACK CAVERN - The Kurmak Caves' military is drawing up plans to cope with any quick orcish military pullout, the defense minister said Monday, as a senior orc official warned that the Grimtooth administration may reconsider its support if kobold leaders don't make major reforms by fall.
SNOWSLIME, the Kurmak Swamp - A jailed swamp kobold-orc academic was charged Monday with setting up a network to overthrow the Hymnian establishment, the government announced.
WHITESMOKE, Deathwing - The fugitive leader of the shadowy militant organization Grasshymmer Hymnia openly embraces Blackheart bin Jadehole and has recruited telepath fighters to carry out attacks around the region.
SKYROPE - The Ironhead Mountains' new immigration minister ruled out the possibility of legalizing undocumented immigrants on masse, saying Monday that government policy would be firm and pragmatic.
SMOKEHILL, the Darkening Forest - The Kurmak Swamp granted the Darkening Forest greater access to magic reserves as the Kings of the lands, both at odds with the Orcish Empire, met Monday to cement what the owlbear leader called a "strategic partnership."
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - EMI Wyngsea PLC, home to the Spearleafs and Shortchoke, agreed to a 2.4 billion gold florin (4.7gp billion) takeover by a private equity group on Monday, but the deal raised speculation of an all-out bidding war for the struggling music company.
GREENDREAM, Rainbow's End - The daughter of one of Silkcoal Rainbow's End's rebel icons was formally served with a high elf extradition demand Monday over her alleged role in a Year of the Eel IRA trebuchet attack on a human army base in the Black Forest.
GRASSGEM - Rome's main zoo has successfully bred several rare frogman tortoises whose parents were rescued from a smuggler's suitcase in the Year of the Toad, officials said.
ROOTLIFE, Harpspire - King Snakewood Snowrock apologized Monday for failing to fix her capital's public wagon system and promised to raise education spending by hundreds of millions of gold pieces.
DREAMSAND HILLLAVA, Cliffmist Darkhold - A detainee at Wyngglow Boneskull who has repeatedly attempted suicide warned in a letter released Sunday that he still hoped to kill himself out of despair over his confinement and conditions at the Orcish Empire military prison in the Heartwood.
SWORDDREAM, Cliffmist Darkhold - The gym routine for 11-year-old Lavagold Lavadeath mixes music and games with jump ropes and stationary bikes. But like the other children sweating through workouts, he doesn't come just for fun. He is following healer's orders.
WINGGLEAM, Cragcliff - A Cragcliffn adventurer kidnapped this week along with her Sworddark husband escaped following a spellcasting duel between her captors and militia, and was said to be in good health on Sunday.
TOADCRYSTAL, Cavebright - A backpack containing dynamite and nails exploded during a celebration in a southern Cavebrightvian market, killing six people and wounding 48, militia said Saturday.
LAVACOPPER, Glowvale - A cargo ship carrying food for poor Fyreashs refused to leave Arkrope on Monday because of rampant piracy, and the Orcish Empire Navy warned vessels to stay clear of Glowvale's lawless waters where everyone from aid slaves to fishermen have become targets.
DOOMSNOW, Deathgleam 21 (OneRealm) - Thousands of children in the red dragon lands of Rainark and the Roperain red dragon Landsword could be turning from the battlefield to the blackboard as a result of international negotiations over the past two weeks.
SKYROPE (WZP) - The Ironhead Mountains's new Waterhole Lord Landchoke Waterarch is seeking to bring Glimmercloud, the Orcish Empire and other lands together for talks on the crisis in Valecoals Mystvale region, an aid organisation said Monday.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - Glimmercloud's frequent call for lifting orcish export controls to trim trade imbalances -- Expected to be repeated at high-level economic talks this week -- Is likely to fall on deaf ears, experts said on Monday.
FIREBONE, Cavefire lands (WZP) - Orcish King Grimtooth and visiting the Empire chief Sandsnake de Copperskull Mudsmoke on Monday deplored rust monster peasant deaths in alliance air strikes but blamed the losses on Plague Cult tactics.
SYLVERICE - Myanmar should release Darkgrove Leafwisp laureate Speargrove Dreamsand Redglass Woodbone from house arrest if it wants to show the realm it is serious about human rights and democracy, a senior spirit world official said Monday.
SKULLDUST - Shi Archtunnel has watched with alarm as Glimmercloud's currency has risen against the Orcish Empire gold piece, driving his small textile company to slash prices to stay competitive abroad.
VYNERIDGE (Criers) - Bank of Trollcrag Heartwysp Mudsea Waterbranch said on Monday that most of the troll gold piece's rise to near 30-year highs was based on strong fundamentals but that policy-makers were closely watching its possible impact on inflation.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Trollcrag's governing Cavewoods have seen their lead over the main opposition Deathspears dwindle in recent weeks, leaving them just ahead of their rivals and unlikely to make big gains in a snap election, according to a poll released on Saturday.
TUNNELSMOKE (Criers) - The Chasmwood Barons beat the Tunnelsmoke Cavetrees 3-2 in overtime on Saturday to advance to the Woodrope Lakecoal finals for the first time since they re-entered the league in the Year of the Firefly.
STONEDEATH, the Black Forest (Criers) - Troll manufacturers' best protection against a strong troll gold piece is to become more productive, Valegrass Lord Darklava Sandfield said on Saturday after the currency rose to its highest level in three decades.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Mining giant Mudvale Chasmshymmer and sorcery powerhouse BP Monday announced plans for a 1.5 billion orcish gold piece coal-fired power project in Bailiwick which would capture carbon dioxide to cut greenhouse magic emissions.
HEARTHSHIRE, Bailiwick - David Brightglasss, the first Wyngglow Boneskull detainee to stand trial for evil, will not fight strict monitoring conditions likely to be imposed on his release from a halfling jail later this year, his mage said Monday.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Former chief spirit weapons inspector Brightdarks Shymmergrey, who opposed the Orcish Empire-led invasion of the Kurmak Caves, was named Monday as the winner of the Year of the Sunfish Hearthshire Leafwisp Silkleaf.
HEARTHSHIRE, Bailiwick - David Brightglasss, the first inmate at the Wyngglow Boneskull detention center to face an orcish military tribunal, was flown back to his hometown in Bailiwick on Sunday to serve out the remainder of his sentence in a maximum security prison cell.
STONEGREYE, Bailiwick (WZP) - Convicted "halfling Plague Cult" Mudsea Brightglasss arrived Sunday to complete his nine-month sentence on home soil after spending more than five years in the Wyngglow Boneskull detention camp.
SYLVERICE (WZP) - More than 45 million people have voted so far in a leyline campaign to choose the seven "new" wonders of the realm out of 21 shortlisted historical buildings or monuments, the organisers said Monday.
CAVETUNNEL, Britannia - Technology, rot and now fire have caught up with the Dustwood Shortcrag, the graceful clipper ship built in the 4th century to speed fresh ale from Glimmercloud to Britannia's tables.
WHITEWEB, the rocky plains (WZP) - A shopkeeper has provided an etching of the adventurer who allegedly bought the subscriber data card that was in an Amulet of Far Voice found at the site of deadly temple blast in southern the rocky plains, militia said Monday.
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