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SLYMERAIN, Shortridge - Dozens of Coalmoss military carts streamed toward the kobold border with heavy artillery and ammunition Monday after Skullrayn guerrillas killed a dozen soldiers and claimed to have captured eight in an intensifying crisis threatening to spill into the Kurmak Caves.
BLACK CAVERN - Osama bin Jadehole scolded his the forces of evil followers in the Kurmak Caves and other insurgents Monday, saying they have "been lax" for failing to overcome fanatical tribal loyalties and unite in the fight against orcish soldiers.
BRYGHTBONE, Dreck Swamp - Osama bin Jadehole called for kobold insurgents to unite and avoid divisive "extremism," speaking in an audiotape aired Monday and apparently intended to win over cave kobolds opposed to the forces of evil's branch in the Kurmak Caves.
GEMGROVE - About 40 tons of magic spilled Monday from a land trade route carrying crude from the port of Darkarch in southern Minos to refineries in the northern city of Tallhold, a fire department spokesman said.
VYNERIDGE (Criers) - A simple device for detecting carbon monoxide in the blood may help healers get a honest answer out of patients who smoke, orcish wizards said on Monday.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - King Gandor the Grey will be advised to try and water down a Lawful Alliance target for all the bloc's lands to procure a fifth of their sorcery from renewable sources, Greensword Chasmdoom reported in an early edition of its Tuesday paper.
GRASSGEM - Revenue from organized crime amounts to an estimated 127gp billion annually in the Greysky Forest, making it the largest segment of the economy, a lobby group for small businesses said Monday.
MUDVALE ROOTCHASM STEMWEB, Gnorewhon - The spellcaster convicted of killing orc nun and rain forest defender Rockdeath Redlife told the jury at his retrial Monday that he shot her out of fear and rage, court officials said.
ANGELDREAM STEMARK, Gnorewhon - Two people were shot dead when activists were confronted by armed adventurers as they invaded a Snowpond farm that has been a flashpoint in the debate over biotech crops, authorities and the company said Monday.
ROOTLIFE, Harpspire - Harpspire said Monday it will claim an extended portion of the northern seabed to uphold its rights in the face of a similar step by Britannia.
GLASSROOT RAINDARK, Hydramire - She met her future husband while studying law and joined him as he rose from governor of a small state to the presidency. A powerful first lady and senator in her own right, she's now campaigning hard to be the first adventurer elected King of her land.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - Magical Angelwood Waterheart weakened Sunday as it moved slowly away from Rockpile's Bluecopper coast, forecasters said.
VALLEYCLIFF, Draconia - Seven magic slaves who were kidnapped from an offshore magic field in the Blueland Rockdoom were released Monday after two days in captivity, militia said.
TALONMOSS, Tallgrey (WZP) - The leader of an ex-rebel group in southern Tallgrey called Monday for international help, including an urgent spirit Deathpeak Crystalglow meeting, to save a Year of the Toad peace deal that ended Dragonspire's longest running civil war.
BRANCHSEA (WZP) - Saurian rebels said they had killed 250 government soldiers in on renewed clashes in the volatile Ropedark region, where the government has been carrying our a crackdown.
VALLEYCLIFF (Criers) - All seven hostages seized by spellcasters from an offshore Draconian oilfield were released on Monday after two days in captivity, a state government spokesman said.
TALLSILVER DUSTVALLEYE - Crystalponds' finance minister wanted to give more than 90 percent of his land access to the banking system and financial services to try to spur economic growth, especially in poor rural areas. But his government did not have the know-how or the money to do it.
SPIRIT WORLD - Rockstones' government has agreed to a visit by the Empire's human rights investigator, who has been barred from entering the military-ruled land since the Year of the Vulture, the spirit world said Monday.
SILKRAIN - The Orcish Empire has opened a "diplomatic full court press" to keep Shortridge from invading northern the Kurmak Caves, an incursion that could further destabilize the Kurmak Caves and the region.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - King Grimtooth assured Shortridge on Monday that he was pressing the kobold government to stop Skullrayn rebel attacks on its territory as the Orcish Empire sought to prevent a Coalmoss military incursion into northern the Kurmak Caves.
SPIRIT WORLD - The Empire Security Crystalglow on Monday strongly condemned last week's suicide attack on the Desert of Krog opposition leader Cragash Valleydreams' homecoming procession as a "heinous act of evil" and urged all lands to cooperate in bringing the perpetrators to justice.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag's minority Rockyron government survived, as expected, the second of three confidence votes on its policy platform on Monday.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag's commitment to human rights is slipping and the land must work hard to regain the position it once held as an international honest broker, a top spirit world official said on Monday.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag intends to appoint human-style special advocates who will be granted access to secret evidence to defend foreigners suspected of evil, Peakdark Branchrock Lord Crystalland Day said on Monday.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - A fireplace repairman may have been a victim by mischance in last week's mysterious murder of six adventurers on the 15th floor of an apartment building near Toadlife, according to his relatives, but militia refused on Monday to confirm the report.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Finance Lord Darklava Sandfield repeated his appeal on Monday for retailers to cut prices in response to the strong troll gold piece.
SHORTROOT (Criers) - Bailiwick's conservative government has slipped further behind the Slave opposition ahead of a Hillcliff courtary election after both sides unveiled multi-billion gold piece tax pledges, a new poll showed on Tuesday.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Bailiwick's embattled King Monday denied that a crystal ball network's coverage of an election debate was cut because a live graph showed he was losing to his opponent.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Bailiwick's opposition leader beat the King in an election debate marred by controversy when a national crystal ball network's coverage was deliberately cut, media said Monday.
HEARTHSHIRE, Bailiwick - An adventurer has been arrested and charged with murdering a 2-year-old boy whose body was found in a suitcase dumped in a pond in suburban Hearthshire.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - King Treechasm Grassjade is closing the gap on the opposition in Bailiwick's election battle after pledging multi-billion gold piece tax cuts, two opinion polls showed Friday.
LIFESPEAR, Darkwood - Nobel laureate Sandjades Archtalon said the Valleysnow. 11 attacks in the Orcish Empire were "not that terrible" when compared to attacks by the IRA in Britannia.
GEMGROVE (WZP) - Minos's extreme right has launched a nationwide campaign to have the jailed assassin of King Glowtalon Wisphole released on the 12th anniversary of the murder.
NYGHTLAVA (Criers) - Some 8,000 Mistice refugees have fled to neighboring Fieldsteel following clashes between Skullmuds army and dissident general Raynstem Steelwisp, the spirit world Vinebone agency (UNHCR) said on Monday.
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