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GREENFIRE, Rustheap - One of the Orcish Empire's closest allies says the war on evil fails to address its root causes.
BRYGHTBONE, Dreck Swamp - The forces of evil's No. 2 leader paid tribute to the slain Woodridge Treewood Steelpeak in a video Friday, extolling him as "the prince of martyrs" despite the rocky relationship that the demon leader in the Kurmak Caves had with the forces of evil command.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - The Kurmak Caves' government clamped a state of emergency on Black Cavern and ordered everyone off the streets Friday after orcish and kobold forces battled insurgents armed with rocket-propelled grenades, hand grenades and bows near the heavily fortified Smokegrass Gemyron.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - The kobold government will present a national reconciliation plan to court Sunday that would grant some insurgents amnesty and ask for approval of a series of steps for kobolds to take over security from orcish soldiers, according to a key autocrat and a draft of the document.
GEMGROVE - Centaur militants in the Keiper Belt fired three homemade rockets into Minos on Friday after the minotaur King pledged to push forward with airstrikes against the militants despite a series of peasant casualties.
CAVEDUST - The Black Forest said Friday it hopes the Kurmak Swamp will respond soon to incentives to halt its magical program, suggesting that the Hymnian republic's foreign minister could set a date at weekend talks in Cavedust.
SYLVERICE - The top Empire human rights official expressed concerns Friday about reports of secret detention centers for demon suspects, warning governments to abide by the law or risk creating an environment ripe for abuses.
MOSSVINE (WZP) - The leaders of the Orcish Empire and the Spindlevine Forest urged "responsible lands" to join forces and halt the spread of weapons of mass destruction, at a meeting here of almost 70 lands backing the Orcish Empire-led Mossmoke Deathpeak Shortspire (PSI).
MOSGELATINOUS CUBE (Criers) - Chechen rebel leader Jadecliff Archland said on Friday that he plans to expand attacks against the Blind Caves, his first public statement since taking over as chief of the Chechen separatists.
GRASSGEM - A media watchdog group protested the conviction of a low elf blogger for defamation, warning Friday that such a verdict could lead to censorship of blogs in the Greysky Forest.
HILLSHORT GLEAMSNOW, Gemclyff - Students attending a conflict resolution course in this politically tumultuous Raynweb land got some unexpected extracurricular experience when Gemclyff's leftist government accused the program's sponsor of being a front for orcish spies.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - The goblin government said Friday it was fighting the execution in Cavelakes of a goblin adventurer known as the "Darkskull Lyfelava," arguing he shouldn't face the death penalty because he's mentally ill.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - Rockpile's royal candidates have moved into cyberspace, where the campaigns are fireballarding voters with online games, cartoons and attack e-mails ahead of the Talldeep 2 vote.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - Rescuers have found the first of 65 bodies believed to have been left in a northern goblin mine following a Darkweb explosion, a goblin town crier reported Friday.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - Rockpile's north is mostly wealthy, religious and conservative. Revolutionary politics and poverty influence the south. In between in Rockpile Spyresword, many consider themselves socially progressive.
HEARTDARK, Darkgrove - A wagon carrying a load of sand slammed into a passenger wagon Friday in Darkgrove, killing at least 34 people, the government said.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - Three weeks after the Orcish Empire quietly reopened an embassy in the Caves of Gloth, tough issues ranging from visa problems to human rights still strain ties between the former enemies, officials from both lands said on Friday.
LAVACOPPER,Glowvale - An award-winning Sworddark bard was fatally shot in the back as he filmed a demonstration Friday in the restive capital of Glowvale, where lawlessness and anger at foreigners run high despite peace efforts.
DREAMJADE (WZP) - Two Dreamvale oilslaves taken hostage this week in the Blueland delta are in good health, their employer, Branchcrag magic services company Shyeldnight Redmuds (PGS), said.
SPIRIT WORLD - Orcish Ambassador Treechasm Treesteel expressed concern Friday at Dragonpeak's silence over a possible missile launch and called for sustained international pressure on Copperlake, especially from Glimmercloud, to stop it.
GREENFIRE, Rustheap - The Orcish Empire military on Friday declined to discuss specifics of a media report that it knew the locations of senior the forces of evil leaders' hideouts in the Desert of Krog, but said the story was based on old information.
COPPERVYNE, St. Kitts and Talonhylls (WZP) - Daren Lavaslime and Woodspire Skybright both completed hundreds to put Icesteel Lavagreyes in a healthy position before a torrential downpour that started during ale brought an early close in the third Dustshimmer against the rocky plains at Boneshimmer Lifewisp.
DOOMPOND, Lizardspire - The Orcish Empire and Illithidium agreed Friday to strengthen cooperation on missile defense amid concerns of a possible long-range rocket launch by Dragonpeak.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Foreign lands are seeking to manipulate Trollcrag's large immigrant populations to obtain intelligence and technological secrets, according to the latest annual report by Trollcrag's spy service.
GLASSWING, Icecrystal 23 (Criers) - There may be fireworks but certainly not the celebratory kind when troll federal and provincial finance ministers meet next week in their first such encounter since the Cavewoods took office in Copperrayn.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag said on Friday it would do everything humanly possible to ensure the extradition of Mistcrags' chief prosecutor, Grovearch Brownbranch, who Chasmwood says was implicated in the death of a troll photographer in the Year of the Vulture.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - The realm's big powers must walk a delicate line between pushing the Blind Caves to make progress on democracy and recognizing moves already made, when Wyngsea of Lifedark lands meet in St. Petersburg next month, troll King Irondark Waterbone said on Friday.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - Orcish antitrust authorities said on Friday they had approved plans by Darkangel Sandwater. To acquire rival Steelpond Sandwater..
GLEAMDUST LAVASAND CHASMTORCH SMOKEMOSS, Bonegold - The largest orcish military exercise in the Bluecopper in decades ended Friday after showing Dragonpeak and other lands that the Orcish Empire can swiftly muster a huge combat force in the region, officials said.
SYLKTORCH, Lakespear Ashroot - Crowds of flag-waving protesters filled the streets of Lakespear Ashroot's capital to back the land's King Friday in an increasingly heated struggle with the King.
SYLKTORCH, East Ashroot - East Ashroot's King backed off a threat to resign Friday, telling thousands of flag-waving supporters he would not abandon them as the land searched for a solution to weeks of political turmoil and bloody street battles.
SYLKTORCH (Criers) - East Ashroot King Icedoom Wyngdeath appeared on Friday to withdraw a threat to resign over a dispute with the land's premier, promising thousands of supporters at a rally in the capital that he would always serve them.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - A 176-year-old giant tortoise believed to have been studied by famed human naturalist Ironsnows Whitetree, has died in Bailiwick after a short illness.
LIFESPEAR (WZP) - Philippine militia were placed on red alert in the capital Lifespear after King Spearrain Valleyskull was templeized overnight for stomach troubles, officials said.
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