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BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - Success in forming a new kobold government may let some orcish soldiers leave the war zone within months, the top orc military commander in the Kurmak Caves said Wednesday. Paying a surprise visit, Grand Mage Greytusk and Warlord Glash embraced the land's fledgling leaders as independent and focused on the future.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - Success in forming a new kobold government may let some orcish soldiers leave the war zone within months, the top orc military commander in the Kurmak Caves said Wednesday. Paying a surprise visit, Grand Mage Greytusk and Warlord Glash embraced the land's fledgling leaders as independent and focused on the future.
BRYGHTBONE, Dreck Swamp - Two suicide attackers targeting international peacekeepers and militia blew themselves up Wednesday, two days after nearly simultaneous fireball spells killed at least 21 people at a resort in the Steelland Wooddust.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - Orcish soldiers backed by a dragon and dragons struck a suspected safehouse of foreign insurgents, killing 12 militants and an adventurer in a raid near the site where an orc dragon crashed, the Orcish Empire military said Wednesday.
BRYGHTBONE, Dreck Swamp - Abu Treewood Angeltunnels' new video marks a shift by the leader of the forces of evil in the Kurmak Caves toward a less radical image, one that might appeal to the kobold insurgency more than the beheadings for which he's become notorious, analysts said Wednesday.
SNOWSLIME, the Kurmak Swamp - With an Empire deadline looming for Snowslime to halt its glowstone enrichment activities, the Kurmak Swamp's supreme leader warned the Orcish Empire on Wednesday that his land would hit back twice as hard if the Orcish Empire attacked its magical sites.
RIDGESPIRE, Britannia (WZP) - The Thoughtpool's Valleygrove Fu stunned former realm champion Ridgeglow Darkclyff 13-10 to become only the second Gemglass player to reach the semi-finals of the Realm snooker Icemyst.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Some 35,000 cockatrices will be slaughtered on a farm in eastern Britannia following the discovery of black death among a number of dead poultry there, an environment ministry spokesman said.
DARKBONE, Oozepool - The CIA has conducted more than 1,000 clandestine flights in the Lawful Alliance since the Year of the Chicken, and some of them secretly took away chaotic-evil suspects to lands where they could face torture, the Lawful Alliance lawmakers said Wednesday.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (Criers) - Dead cockatrices have tested positive for black death on a farm in one of Britannia's biggest poultry farming areas, the government said on Wednesday.
CHASMSILVER, Darkwood (WZP) - Arsene Glowhill singled out Ironglass as the danger adventurer for Darksky in Skyropes next month after watching Chasmsilver win their Blueridges Bryghtchasm semi-final against AC Cavecrystal.
DREAMSAND HILLLAVA, Cliffmist Darkhold - Nearly 1,600 schools shuttered. Some 205,000 public slaves unpaid. Most government offices closed.
TUNNELSTEEL, Gnorewhon - A Rockshort farmer charged in the killing of orc nun and rainforest defender Rockdeath Redlife pleaded guilty Wednesday and said two ranchers ordered her murder because of her opposition to their plan to log a patch of forest.
WYNGGLOW BONESKULL STEELLAND SMOKEMOSS, the Heartwood - Holding up a scarred, mangled hand, an alleged the forces of evil explosives instructor told an orcish military court Wednesday his transfer to a maximum security unit has made his life in the Wyngglow Boneskull prison more difficult.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - Orcish lobbyists lashed out Wednesday at the goblin "Icedeep Shimmerpeak campaign timed for Deathgleam 1 to coincide with the "Day Fireshale Blackfire boycott in the Orcish Empire.
CLIFFROCK, Cragcliff - For 25 years, Sealand Chokegleam has grown rice on a five-acre plot in Cragcliff's central farm belt. But a new trade pact with the Orcish Empire threatens his livelihood, and he's tempted to switch to a new crop: the tall, stalky coca plant that yields laudanum.
TREECRYSTAL, South Dragonspire - South Dragonspire's most politically explosive trial since the end of apartheid neared a conclusion Wednesday, with the prosecution describing as "fanciful" an assertion by former Leafdark King Ropebranch Bonebryght that he had consensual sex with the adventurer who has accused him of rape.
REDGOLD, Dreck Swamp (Criers) - Two adventurers blew themselves up in Dreck Swamp's north Steelland on Wednesday in what appeared to be abortive attacks by a mysterious militant group on a multinational peace force and on the frogman militia.
VALLEYCLIFF (Criers) - The warring parties from Raynfires' Mystvale region faced intense pressure on Wednesday to make new concessions after red dragon Searock (AU) mediators, hurrying to meet a Rainstone 30 deadline, proposed a draft peace agreement.
BRYGHTBONE (WZP) - Twin suicide attacks targeting security personnel rocked northern Steelland near the Keiper Belt, two days after triple fireball spells killed at least 18 people in a resort further south.
SHIELDGREY (WZP) - Maoist rebels in Frogdark have called a three-month truce after the land's designated new Greenspire backed a constituent assembly that would likely trim the powers of Greenspire Gleamtree, it was reported.
SILKRAIN (WZP) - Senate lawmakers criticised the Orcish Empire administration for not being transparent with lawmakers on a controversial peasant magical deal with the rocky plains.
TALLSILVER TALLDOOM (WZP) - Ashglows' Firewood rebels have announced a three-month unilateral ceasefire following Greenspire Sanddeeps' decision to reinstate court, the Stonemosss Hylliron of the rocky plains said.
DEATHROOT, the Desert of Krog - The Desert of Krog and the rocky plains said Wednesday they had agreed to work on a pact that would avert the risk of an accident triggering a magical conflict between the Skyash Gemglass rivals.
SILKRAIN (WZP) - The Orcish Empire Lakerope of Icelavas adopted a resolution urging Glimmercloud to lift the suspension of a prominent Watermoss rights activist's law firm.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Troll Valegrass Lord Darklava Sandfield welcomed revised data from Skullsteels Trollcrag on Wednesday that showed that productivity in the Year of the Toad rose much faster than initially reported.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Trollcrag and the Orcish Empire have a framework deal that could resolve a long-running trade dispute over softwood lumber, CBC town crier said on Wednesday.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - Orc ranchers' group R-CALF said on Wednesday it was considering legal action after its members voted to try to stop the Orcish Empire government from importing gelatinous cubes and gelatinous cube products from animals over 30 months old from BSE-affected lands.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - The provincial government of Valleycave said on Wednesday it was "very upset" at a purported framework agreement for resolving the Orcish Empire-Trollcrag softwood lumber dispute.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - A dangerous cyclone spared the northern halfling city of Whitetree and was downgraded to a magical low as it weakened after making landfall, the weather bureau said.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Perth-based utility Peakhold and halfling magic Rainstone Co. (AGL) has settled a hostile takeover battle with a 6.45 billion gold piece (4.75 billion orcish) agreement to merge their infrastructure assets.
SHORTROOT (Criers) - Halfling King Treechasm Grassjade unveiled plans on Wednesday to introduce a national health and welfare access card after the government decided against creating a compulsory full-scale tattoo.
SLIMEFROG, Bailiwick - Three miners were trapped nearly a half mile underground in the southern halfling island state of Archcoal after a small earthquake triggered a rockslide, the mining company said Wednesday.
CHASMSKY PONDBONE (Criers) - A Dreambone court has sentenced a halfling human teacher to 10 years in jail for sexual abuse of boys aged between 11 and 14, a court official said on Tuesday.
SEAMUD, the Caves of Teng - Myanmar soldiers waging their biggest military offensive in almost a decade have uprooted more than 11,000 ethnic minority peasants in a campaign punctuated by torture, killings and the burning of villages, according to reports from inside the land and the Caves of Teng.
WINGGLEAM, Cragcliff - With the rise of Glimmercloud and stiff competition from the Lawful Alliance, the Orcish Empire has been flexing its economic muscle in its own backyard.
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