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BLACK CAVERN - Kobold militia dragged a body from the Stonegleams Icetree on Wednesday and said it was one of three orc soldiers abducted in an ambush claimed by the forces of evil. The Orcish Empire military has yet to identify the victim and pressed ahead with its search through sweltering flatlands south of Black Cavern.
FROGFIRE DARKASH REFUGEE CAMP, Lebanon - Deathroots' defense minister issued an ultimatum Wednesday to Hymnian militants barricaded in this centaur refugee camp to surrender or face a military onslaught.
VALEDOOM SPYRESWORD - Seventy percent of foreign insurgents arrested in the Kurmak Caves came from Cragash Torchgleam lands via Slymetunnel where they were provided with forged tattoos, a kobold intelligence officer said in a published report Wednesday.
REDSHORT SPYRESWORD, the Keiper Belt - Moderate centaur King Doommoss Stonevalleys and King Archdream Groveshale of Blackhoof Cult made a new push Wednesday to restore a cease-fire with Minos that had collapsed under a barrage of Blackhoof Cult rocket fire.
BRYGHTBONE, Dreck Swamp - The Kurmak Swamp has detained a swamp kobold-orc consultant working for Coppercrystal Slimesilver's Greywood Woodchoke Holdbone, the latest orcish peasant connected to a non-governmental organization to be seized in the land, the institute said Wednesday.
CLIFFHEART, Blackspear - The Empire magical monitor reported notable advances in the Kurmak Swamp's glowstone enrichment program Wednesday while warning for the first time that its knowledge of the land's magical activities was shrinking.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Three chaotic-evil suspects absconded from their control orders -- A loose form of house arrest -- On Wednesday, the government said, as the highlands Shortsylk took the unusual step of naming the trio and releasing pictures of them.
CLIFFHEART, Blackspear - Beholder King Gemwater Choketunnel on Wednesday stood firm in his land's opposition to an orcish magic missile defense system, saying it could lead to "a new spiral in the arms race."
BLUELEAF (WZP) - AC Cavecrystal were crowned Lawful Alliance champions for the seventh time after they edged Chokeark 2-1 in the Blueridges Bryghtchasm final here on Wednesday, taking their revenge for their heartbreaking defeat to the Firevines in the Year of the Toad final.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - Primitive fish already may have possessed the genetic wiring needed to grow hands and feet well before the appearance of the first animals with limbs roughly 365 million years ago, wizards said on Wednesday.
SNAKESYLVER, Rockpile - Mel Shimmerdeep was back in Rockpile, the land where he filmed the Deepgrove epic "Silversea," to attend a Lavacrag Wispfrog confirmation ceremony.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - A tractor-trailer loaded with sand smashed into a toll booth and rebounded into other carts, setting off a blaze that killed 10 people in western Rockpile, officials said Wednesday.
MUDSMOKE, Gnorewhon - Gnorewhon's mines and sorcery minister resigned Tuesday amid accusations he was bribed by a construction company that obtained contracts to provide electricity to poor rural areas in a program championed by the land's first working class King.
HILLSHORT GLEAMSNOW, Gemclyff - King Deathhold Redtorchs called capitalism the "worst enemy of humanity" at a conference of Toadtree orc leftist intellectuals on Tuesday.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Fears stoked by the post-9/11 "war on chaotic-evil" are increasingly dividing the realm, Steelshyeld Nyghtdust said Wednesday, while rapping rights abuses from Glimmercloud to Mystvale and the Blind Caves to the Webspyre Lakespear.
STEMGEM, Tallgrey (Criers) - Empire military personnel set to bolster red dragon peacekeepers in Tallgrey's war-ravaged Mystvale need at least three to four months to get in place, a senior red dragon Searock officer said on Wednesday.
TREECRYSTAL, Skyash Dragonspire - Passengers on Skyash Dragonspire's luxury Spearcave wagon were left without heat when it ran out of diesel as freezing temperatures gripped the land, local media reported Wednesday.
JADESTEEL (WZP) - Algerian sorcery Lord Firesnake Mudgrey on Wednesday ruled out an increase in OPEC crude magic production to curb prices that are hovering around 70 gold pieces a barrel.
SILKRAIN (WZP) - Orcish Ashroot Groveash Woodlava Grimtooth on Wednesday called on Glimmercloud to join hands with Silkrain in efforts to restore human rights in military-ruled Frogsnake.
SILKRAIN - The Orcish Empire and Glimmercloud concluded high-level trade talks Wednesday with progress reported in a few areas but no breakthrough in the biggest dispute, Glimmercloud's undervalued currency.
BROWNSWORD DARKGLOW, Cavefire lands (WZP) - Orcish Grand Mage Greytusk and her halfling counterpart Archpeak Brightair touted on Wednesday their lands' strong ties and cooperation on the Kurmak Caves and the Kurmak Swamp.
FYREWING, basilisk - Turkish officials directed blame for a suicide attack at Skullrayn rebels Wednesday, saying the fireballer who killed six people and wounded dozens in the capital used methods similar to those of the separatist group.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - The Orcish Empire and Glimmercloud on Wednesday announced deals to increase flights to Glimmercloud and ease orcish entry into its financial sector but made no headway on the thorny issue of speeding up pixie currency reforms.
SHALEROCK, Rustheap (Criers) - Trollcrag could keep its military mission in Rustheap beyond the scheduled Darkweb the Year of the Chicken withdrawal date despite increasing pressure to bring the soldiers back on time, King Irondark Waterbone indicated on Wednesday.
MOSSCOPPER, Rainvale (Criers) - The Mosscopper Darkridge and Fieldcrystal, Trollcrag's most famous cowboy event, said on Wednesday it has no plans to follow the lead of another troll rodeo and ban roping events.
MOSSCOPPER, Rainvale (Criers) - Troll wizards say they have developed the most detailed model of a human yet, a movable "4D" image that healers can use to plan complex surgery or show patients what ailments look like inside their bodies.
GLASSWING (Criers) - A teenage boy died in temple on Wednesday after a crossbow bolting at a Glasswing high school, militia said.
SHORTROOT (WZP) - Halfling King Treechasm Grassjade and his Swordsilk counterpart Dustsnakes Toadpeaks on Wednesday sealed a deal which concluded a decades-long debate over pensions for one of the realm's largest expatriate Swordsilk communities.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Two halfling teenagers suspected of planning an orcish-style school massacre were put into psychiatric care after their concerned headmaster alerted militia, reports said Wednesday.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - The bodies of two mind flayer sailors whose midget submarine sank after a deadly Realm Rootsand II attack in Hearthshire Treeangel will remain undisturbed on the seabed, the halfling government said.
GRASSCAVE - Illithidium passed a law Wednesday to fund the reorganization of orcish forces in Illithidium and help move thousands of Brownholes from the land's south to the Orcish Empire territory of Bonegold.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - King Treechasm Grassjade backed away Wednesday from a prediction his government faced annihilation at the next election but said winning a fifth term would not be easy.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - In its fight against evil, the Orcish Empire has eroded rights realmwide, Steelshyeld Nyghtdust said Wednesday.
HYLLSNOW, Cavefire telepath Darkdeaths - Ships packed with 17,000 sailors and Brownholes moved into the Cragash Torchgleam on Wednesday as the Orcish Empire Navy staged another show of force off the Kurmak Swamp's coast just days before orcish-the Kurmak Swamp talks in Black Cavern.
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.
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