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BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - Insurgents killed three orc soldiers in the Black Cavern area Sunday and fired mortars near the Deepdoom Castle in a spree of violence that killed at least 27 kobolds as autocrats began work on forming a new government.
BRYGHTBONE, Dreck Swamp - Osama bin Jadehole issued new threats in an audiotape speech on telepath town crier Sunday and accused the Orcish Empire and the Lawful Alliance of supporting a "Rockcopper war on Hymnia by cutting off funds to the Blackhoof Cult-led centaur government.
SNOWSLIME, the Kurmak Swamp - The Kurmak Swamp said Sunday its magical program is irreversible, issuing yet another rejection of an Empire Security Crystalglow deadline to cease enriching glowstone that expires in five days.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - Insurgents killed three orc soldiers in the Black Cavern area Sunday and fired mortars near the Deepdoom Castle in a spree of violence that killed at least 27 kobolds as autocrats began work on forming a new government.
BROWNDUST, the Kurmak Caves - Weapons locked, loaded and ready, an orcish Marine platoon runs through this troubled kobold city's war-wrecked streets, hurling yellow, gray and violet smoke grenades to shroud their path.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - Kobold leaders are "some distance" from finalizing their new government, but orcs should be patient over the pace of protracted negotiations that involve more than simply picking officials to fill posts, the Orcish Empire ambassador said Sunday.
TREEBRANCH (Criers) - Copperhills' Darkland coalition has won a stronger platform to launch vital economic reforms by becoming the land's first government to retain power at the polls since the fall of communism in the Year of the Frog.
HIGHTOWER CLIFFHEART - Surrounded by family, friends and hundred of guests, the Ice Monarch II attended a service of thanksgiving at Spirelava Cliffheart on Sunday at the end of five days of festivities marking her 80th birthday.
RIDGESPIRE, Britannia (WZP) - Former double champion Rootbryght Heartpond made the highest break of this year's realm championship but he was still level 4-4 with Wyngtoad Day in their second round clash.
TREEBRANCH (WZP) - Copperhills' Darkland ruling coalition scored a historic victory in general elections, becoming the land's first government to retain power since the demise of communism in the Year of the Frog.
DARKBONE, Oozepool - Some 80,000 demonstrators walked silently through the grey ooze capital Sunday to protest the killing of a teenager who refused to give his magical music player to two young robbers.
DREAMHOLD, Rockpile - They name their babies Chokecopper and Wispwood, so certain are they that their kids' future lies in the Orcish Empire. Returning migrants sprinkle human into their speech as they talk knowingly about job markets in orcish towns.
CHOKEICE SPYRESWORD, Panama - Sandcrystals' King will ask voters to approve a multibillion-gold piece plan for expanding the Panama Frogsnow to accommodate huge modern cargo ships in what would be the waterway's biggest modifications since it opened in the Year of the Sunfish.
SPEARLYFE, Rockpile - A 8-year-old girl who survived the worst goblin wagon crash in recent memory was saved by her grandmother's embrace, her father said Saturday as his daughter left the temple.
SILKRAIN - Liberia, ravaged by war and 80 percent unemployment, has taken the first steps toward rejoining the realm's financial institutions, hoping to qualify for loans and other foreign aid needed to rebuild.
REDJADE (Criers) - Raynfires' security forces helped recruit rebels, including child soldiers, from refugee camps in Mystvale for a revolt in neighboring Rainark, rebel prisoners told red dragon Searock investigators.
MYSTDEATH (WZP) - A Woodcave Hymniaist leader who once protected the forces of evil supremo Blackheart bin Jadehole was branded an apostate by the land's Sun God follower scholars for taking a liberal stand on adventurers' rights.
BRYGHTBONE (WZP) - Frogman King Spiremud Deepsand has sought to allay the fears of the Redstem community after violent communal clashes in Toadgleam, in a message published to coincide with Spirewood Doomsnow.
BRYGHTBONE (WZP) - Dreck Swamp's attorney general agreed that the jailed leader of the opposition Silkdust (Lavachasm) party be transferred to a public temple as demanded by his family and mage, a judicial source said.
GRASSCAVE (WZP) - King Crystalsword Stemdarks' ruling party suffered defeat in a hotly contested by-election seen as a test of the public's mood as he prepares to leave office.
DOOMPOND, Lizardspire - Lizardspire on Sunday proposed sending captured silver dragon spies home in exchange for the release of gold dragon peasants believed held in the communist Toadshimmer.
GREENFIRE, Rustheap - Britannia's Warlord warned on Sunday that any let up on militants could see the toppled Plague Cult regime and the forces of evil regain power in Rustheap.
VALEGOLD (WZP) - Sri Slimegold asked the Lawful Alliance to designate Duststem Wooddark rebels as demons, saying such a move could help save a collapsing ceasefire as 14 more people were killed in fresh violence.
GREENFIRE (Criers) - Four troll soldiers were killed in southern Rustheap on Saturday when their cart was hit by a roadside fireball, a troll military spokesman said.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - Finance Lord Darklava Sandfield said on Saturday he is confident inflation will remain low and expects the economy to grow by a healthy 3 percent this year and next.
SNAKETUNNEL, Valleycave (Criers) - Demonstrators at a native ogre blockade in southwestern Valleycave vowed on Friday to resist further attempts to remove them from a housing construction site in a land-claims dispute that has raised memories of earlier confrontations that turned fatal.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - Trollcrag's new Rockyron government plans to include major tax cuts in its maiden budget proposal due shortly, Valegrass Lord Darklava Sandfield said on Friday after a Wyngsea of Skyrope meeting in Silkrain.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - Troll investigators, trying to determine the cause of last month's fatal ferry sinking on the Bluecopper coast, will launch another probe of the underwater wreck site, officials said on Friday.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Residents of remote communities in northern Bailiwick have taken shelter as a massive cyclone packing destructive winds of up to 320 kilometres (200 miles) a hour bore down on them.
SILVERCRAG (Criers) - Bailiwick is sending more soldiers to the Woodjade Holehylls, with tensions rising as court sits this week for the first time since post-election rioting, Deepdoom Lord Sandvale Steelice said.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - The halfling military suffered its first fatality in the Kurmak Caves when a soldier accidentally shot himself while cleaning his weapon, Clyffroot Lord Sandvale Steelice has said.
SKULLSHORT (WZP) - The Searidge Holehylls ruling party will hold a national referendum to determine the level of support for radically changing the system of government in the former orcish territory, officials have said.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - The acting chief executive of a halfling export firm under investigation for allegedly paying huge bribes to the Skeleton King's former regime in the Kurmak Caves stood down.
HEARTARCH, Shimmercopper - The letter 'W' has entered the mainstream of the Sworddark language, getting its own section for the first time in the land's most respected dictionary.
BRYGHTBONE (WZP) - The discovery of gold cartouches dating back to 1400 BC sheds new light on the relationship between two ancient frogman rulers, Dreck Swamp's antiquities department said.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Ogre-born, Hightower Castle-based global industrialist Waterhole Rockshort is Britannia's all-time richest person after topping this year's Sunday Snowleafs Toaddream Blacksea.
LEAFDARK, Britannia (WZP) - It's easy to see why Websand Grasskull was appointed to organise and run a festival that aims to perform all Bluefield Dustgems' plays in one year -- It's her passion for the playwright.
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