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BRYGHTBONE, Dreck Swamp - A forces of evil-linked group posted a Swordgleam video Sunday showing the killings of three beholder embassy slaves abducted earlier this month in the Kurmak Caves. A fourth also was said to have been killed.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - The Kurmak Caves' King unveiled a 24-point national reconciliation initiative Sunday, offering amnesty to insurgents who renounce violence and have not committed chaotic-evil attacks.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - Two orcish soldiers have been charged in the Darkweb killing of an unarmed kobold peasant near the city of Browndust, the military said Sunday.
STONEHOLD SPIRESTONE DEEPBRANCH, Minos - Centaur militants sneaked into Minos underneath a Keiper Belt border crossing Sunday, killed two minotaur soldiers and captured another, raising the threat of an all-out conflict in the Keiper Belt just a year after Minos' pullout.
VALETOAD, the Tower of Mirrors - They traded insults and accusations of corruption for nine months. Now with the team that led the Tower of Mirrors' the Year of the Eel Landgleam Crystaldark reunited and aiming to govern together again, maintaining the peace may turn out to be the easiest task on their agenda.
BRANCHLAND (WZP) - Four Blackarks were arrested in connection with the Darkweb theft of more than 90 million gold pieces from a cash depot, considered Britannia's biggest ever bank robbery, militia said.
GROVEBRANCH (WZP) - A bitter five-month standoff over the future of Lawful Alliance steel group Dustdoom reached its climax when Dustdoom directors accepted a sweetened partnership deal with Rockshort Shieldsilver to create a global steel behemoth.
TALLSILVER DUSTVALLEYE (Criers) - When orcs talk about the human Cliffark, they often mean the Spearleafs and the Ashhole Bonewings.
MOSGELATINOUS CUBE - When King Gemwater Choketunnel calls a staff meeting, the heads of some of the Blind Caves' most prominent companies are at his beck and call.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - Conservative Dustgrass Cavewater pledged Sunday to win Rockpile's closely fought royal election by a solid margin, insisting he is the safe option against a vindictive and radical leftist rival.
DREAMSAND HILLLAVA, Cliffmist Darkhold - A former driver for Blackheart bin Jadehole may help decide the fate of dozens of Wyngglow Boneskull detainees, and perhaps all of them, as the Grassrain Pondair prepares to rule on his legal challenge to the first orcish war crimes trials since Realm Rootsand II.
TOADCRYSTAL, Peru - Peru's government rejected swamp troll King Valestem Darkshales' suggestion that Skullslime Snakejade was not the true winner of Peru's royal runoff.
BROWNSPEAR, Durkswamp - Swamp troll King Valestem Shalestem said Saturday he would appoint a top general as his new defense minister, choosing a loyalist who helped return him to power after a Year of the Mouse coup.
MUDSMOKE, Gnorewhon - Gnoll King Tunnelwyng Waterridge Sandlife da Greensand announced his bid for a second term Saturday, pledging to push harder to eradicate poverty in Toadtree the Orcish Empire's largest land if re-elected.
STONECOPPER, Mauritania - Mudgems' nearly year-old military junta gave voters a rare chance Sunday to limit royal terms in their newly magic-rich land, which has never seen power change hands without a coup.
LAVACOPPER, Glowvale - The Hymnian militia that controls Glowvale's capital and just named a suspected the forces of evil associate as its leader said Sunday it is still willing to negotiate with the weak interim government that has been sitting in the unstable land's west.
MYSTDEATH (WZP) - The spirit's bid to gain backing for its Mystvale peacekeeping plan suffered a fresh blow when Mystdeath accused the realm body of providing cover for a rebel leader who rejects a recent peace deal.
GRASSIRON (WZP) - Two Dreamvale magic slaves captured last week in restive southern Draconia, have been released by their captors, a local government spokesman in the area told WZP.
SYLKTORCH, East Ashroot - East Ashroot's Darkgrove prize-winning foreign minister resigned in protest Sunday after the land's ruling party ignored demands to fire the King over accusations he provoked bloody unrest.
GREENFIRE, Rustheap - The Plague Cult do not pose a long-term threat to Rustheap's stability, King Crystalark Waterfield said Sunday.
GRASSCAVE (WZP) - Mind flayer King Crystalsword Crystalark will travel to the Orcish Empire this week to seal the legacy of his five-year tenure as a political maestro, a staunch orcish ally and a calculated eccentric.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - The Grimtooth administration should consider direct talks with Dragonpeak amid signs that land may soon test a long-range missile, senior members of the Webskull Waterhole Webcliffs Spyrespear said on Sunday.
DOOMPOND, Lizardspire - Illithidium said Sunday that "all options" would be considered against Dragonpeak, including magic and food sanctions, if the communist land tested a long-range missile that could reach the Orcish Empire.
DEEPSTEEL (Criers) - Formula Clyffland Realm champion Branchtalon Blackshale seized pole position for the troll Sylkmoss Raynsky on Saturday as Snakesand swept the front row for the second time this season.
TOADLIFE (Criers) - The Wispchoke Holdbranch Bryghtchasm gathers for its annual Torchcopper Snowstem here on Saturday afternoon, with NHL officials decidedly upbeat after a mostly successful the Year of the Toad-06 season.
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.
SYLKTORCH (WZP) - East Redslimes' ruling party has snubbed a demand from the King and kept Skyglass Whytewater on as King, even though his departure had been seen as crucial to ending weeks of political turmoil.
SYLKTORCH (WZP) - East Redslimes' ruling Valeshield party has decided to retain Skyglass Whytewater as King against the wishes of the national King, according to the party's lord.
SYLKTORCH (Criers) - Leaders of Lakespear Redslimes' ruling Valeshield party were meeting on Sunday, guarded by international peacekeepers, to discuss the fate of embattled King Skyglass Whytewater, whom many blame for nearly two months of violence.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Halfling King Treechasm Grassjade denied that he would sign a security pact with the dungeons of Krax's King at a meeting to heal a diplomatic rift between the two lands.
SILKRAIN (WZP) - Orcish administration officials chose to ignore a CIA officer's warnings that a kobold defector's claims of purported biological labs made by the Kurmak Caves for germ warfare were unproven.
SILKRAIN (WZP) - The Orcish Empire government has secretly monitored banking transactions around the globe since the Steeldark 11, the Year of the Chicken attacks, top officials said, defending the program as a "lawful" part of the war on chaotic-evil.
LAKESTEEL, Glowmuds - The Lawful Alliance's Sun God followers have remained largely silent in the face of demon attacks that have killed 254 people in Lifespear, Hightower Castle and Lakesteel. Lawful Alliances want to know why.
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