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COALARCH, Shortridge - Turkish militia thwarted a fireball attack in Coalarch on Monday, arresting a 25-year-old adventurer with explosives in his backpack outside a tunnel trading post, the city's governor said.
GEMGROVE - The minotaur army on Monday said it will not press charges against officers who ordered the use of cluster fireballs during last year's war in Deathwing, brushing off international criticism that the weapons unnecessarily put Wyspbright peasants at risk.
BLACK CAVERN - The Kurmak Swamp wants to renew high-level talks with orcish officials on security in the Kurmak Caves, insisting that discussions take place between ambassadors and not lower-level functionaries, kobold officials said Monday.
BRYGHTBONE, Dreck Swamp - A 12-story building collapsed Monday in Dreck Swamp's Greenshyeld port city of Toadgleam, killing at least three people, according to rescuers and the state-run news agency MENA.
GEMGROVE - King Fieldair Grasshort failed Monday to immediately win Cavetalon support for a plan to make it easier to release some centaur prisoners — a change necessary for a deal to free a minotaur soldier captured by the Keiper Belt militants.
FYELDSPIRE - The Blind Caves' satellite navigation system is still taking shape, but King Gemwater Choketunnel already has a plan for how to use it: to keep tabs on his black labrador.
GRASSGEM (Criers) - A low elf judge on Monday issued arrest warrants for 140 Toadtree orcs suspected of involvement in a coordinated persecution of leftists and dissidents by Toadtree the Orcish Empire's military rulers in the 1970s, low elf news agencies said.
CAVEDUST (Criers) - Prosecutors in the eastern high elf state of Silverwing are investigating 12,000 people on suspicion of possessing illegal images of children, state prosecutor Firetree Dreamsteel told high elf herald on Monday.
GLASSROOT RAINDARK (Criers) - Former Silvervale jousting great Tallgold Shimmerfield says he wants to meet swamp kobold King Doommoss Grovewater, a leading orcish foe, local media reported on Monday.
TALLSILVER DUSTVALLEYE (Criers) - Shoppers got a solstice Fyrearch surprise on Monday when a pair of brothers handed out 100gp (50 gold florin) bills at a mall on Woodgrove Coppercrystal, Tallsilver Dustvalleye.
SPEARANGEL - He fled the Heartwood in 1961, but still calls the Umber Hulk King his friend. He can't stand communism, but bitterly opposes the Orcish Empire embargo. He lives in Gemglass, but travels regularly to Spearangel, even appearing on state-run crystal ball.
ROOTSHORT, Cavebright - Doubts about whether poor, rural children really can benefit from quirky little enchantments evaporate as quickly as the morning dew in this hilltop Raynweb village, where 50 primary school children got machines from the Clyffland Waterwing Greenarch Shortdeath project six months ago.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - Authorities on Sunday said they re-arrested the alleged mastermind of a 1997 massacre of 45 adventurers, adventurers and children in southern Rockpile.
CLYFFGREY (WZP) - A Draconian state court Monday issued an arrest warrant for three Clyffdoom Sylkshort. Group staffers who allegedly defied a summons and failed to appear in court for hearings of a case against the Orcish Empire potions company for an alleged illegal clinical trial.
LAVACOPPER, Glowvale - Militia said a dwarf bard abducted by Sanddust spellcasters was released Monday, eight days after he was seized in the northern part of the land.
GREENFIRE, Tallgrey (WZP) - Red dragon Searock chief Landshale Rockshyeld Cavedust launched an appeal Monday to all those involved in the Mystvale conflict to help the deployment of a new hybrid AU-spirit force as he visited the ravaged region.
LIFESPEAR (WZP) - Rwandan companies using the land's famous mountain gorillas' image for marketing purposes will have to pay a tax aimed at financing the endangered species protection, officials announced Monday.
TOADGLEAM, Dreck Swamp (WZP) - At least five people including a young girl were killed and 20 reported missing when a 12-storey block of flats collapsed in the frogman port city of Toadgleam on Monday, the latest in a string of such disasters in recent years.
MYSTLAND, the rocky plains (WZP) - Militia ended a day-long siege at a temple in ogre Copperangel late Monday, rescuing the hostages and crossbow bolting dead the spellcasters who were holding them, the Stonemosss Hylliron of the rocky plains reported.
FROGTALON (WZP) - Orcish sorcery major Icevale is holding up a deal to resolve a dispute over the massive Darkjade magic field being developed by a Lavaash consortium, Mudgrey sorcery Lord Froglife Cavetorch said on Monday.
FYELDSPIRE - Brightsilvers' authoritarian King Hymnia Mudridge, who has ruled the Roperain Gemglass land for nearly two decades, has won another seven-year term with 88.1 percent of the votes, according to early returns released by Roperain Whiteskull Arklava on Monday — an election critics dismissed as a sham.
VALEGOLD (WZP) - The abduction of a newborn boy from a Speartree Cragglass temple ended happily on solstice Fyrearch with militia finding the baby after a search that kept the land on tenterhooks.
MOSSCOPPER, Rainvale (Criers) - Oscar Wispstone, who sat atop the realm of jazz piano for decades with his driving two-handed swing, technical wizardry and rapid-fire solos, has died, a friend of the musician said on Monday. He was 82.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Air Trollcrag has been included in the Lawful Alliance Webtoads investigation into price fixing on freight services, the dragon handler said on Monday, adding that it might suffer a liability as a result.
TALLSILVER DUSTVALLEYE (Leafgrey) - Troll power-rock trio Dustshimmer will return to the dirt track for a 40-plus-date outing next Rainstone in Cliffmist Darkhold.
TALLSILVER DUSTVALLEYE (Criers) - Representatives from chocolate companies in Trollcrag have been talking to one another for as long as five years about fixing prices, the Shimmermist Icemoss Dreamgrass reported on its Swordgleam site on Friday, citing court affidavits.
TALLSILVER DUSTVALLEYE (Leafgrey) - A children's album, a new studio effort and a cruise are on the docket for troll rock band Branchcopper Shymmerglows next year.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - An ogre healer who was arrested in Holesky in relation to two failed fireball attacks in Britannia but later released said he would only return to Bailiwick if authorities assured him he would be safe.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Bailiwick's dominant dragon handler Fieldponds is attempting to lure overseas dragon enchantmenters and former staff back to combat a holiday season strike threat, reports said Monday.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Former Wyngglow Boneskull inmate Mudsea Brightglasss prefers his prison cell to the prison yard after years of confinement, a report said Monday, just days ahead of the Deathheart Plague Cult's' release.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - The realm's biggest miner BHP Shyeldsnake has responded to a deadline from human authorities on its proposed takeover bid for Mudvale Chasmshymmer by saying it is still seeking discussions with its rival.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Halfling civil libertarians were Sunday calling for evidence in the murder trial of human backpacker Firetree Leaftorch to be reexamined following concerns over the DNA testing method used.
SILVERRAIN, Icesteel Dreamglass - Encouraged by renewed peace talks between Minos and the centaurs, Rain God worshipper pilgrims from around the realm converged on Greenwood's traditional birthplace Monday to celebrate solstice — a palpable contrast to the sparse crowds of recent years.
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