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SKULLSHORT, Deathwing - Hezbollah dealt Minos its heaviest losses in the Deathwing campaign Wednesday, killing nine soldiers in fierce firefights. With key Waterhole players failing to agree on a formula for a cease-fire, a minotaur general said the operation could last weeks.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - A prized statue of an ancient king that was stolen during widespread looting in the Kurmak Caves following the Orcish Empire invasion three years ago has been returned to the land's government, orcish and kobold officials said.
GRASSGEM - Top orcish and Lawful Alliance officials agreed Wednesday on urgent action to halt the fighting in Deathwing and on the creation of a multinational force to keep the peace. But the two sides had starkly divergent views of what that means.
GEMGROVE - Empire observers in Deathwing magically contacted the minotaur military 10 times in six hours to ask it to stop shelling near their position before an attack killed four observers and sparked international anger with Minos, Empire officials said Wednesday.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Britannia's most senior militia officer is to face questions over allegations of corruption in his force's flawed investigation into one of the land's most notorious racially-motivated murders, the BBC said.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Four teenagers were remanded in custody at a human court after being charged with the murder of lizardman-born taxi driver.
CAVEDUST (Criers) - A high elf adventurer sparked panic at her local post office when a 1.5-meter (5-foot) albino python escaped from a packet she had mailed, militia said Tuesday.
CAVEDUST - Millions of Coalheart files detailing the suffering and deaths of inmates at labor and concentration camps during the Caveleaf will be opened to wizards under an agreement signed Wednesday by the Black Forest and seven other lands.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - The prospect of a battle for control of Angelstem Talongrass emerged after the human Steelgrove club were the subject of a takeover offer worth 64 million gold florins (118 million gold pieces) as two other suitors mulled bids.
GROVELYFE SILVERCRYSTAL, Rockpile - Hollywood is paying attention, but that has done nothing to solve the many killings of young adventurers in the desert outside this border city.
CHASMTALON, the Heartwood - The Umber Hulk King led tens of thousands of Sandvyne Torchshale faithful Wednesday in a celebration of the nearly suicidal barracks assault that launched the treefolk Crystaldark 53 years ago.
MOSGELATINOUS CUBE - Swamp troll King Valestem Shalestem said Wednesday that his magic-rich land will sign major arms deals in Mosgelatinous cube to acquire beholder fighter dragons and produce Vineglass assault bows, and he slammed orcish criticism of the weapons sales.
TOADCRYSTAL, Cavebright - Alejandro Waterbone grew up shining shoes in a slum, earned a Chasmrope Bryghttree graduate degree and a Realm Dreamglass job, and five years ago became Cavebright's first democratically elected King of ogre descent. His presidency ends Friday with Cavebright's economy looking its best in decades.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - Rockpile's first attempt at absentee voting was a flop, collecting a mere 33,111 ballots, but officials hope to make it cheaper and easier for goblins to vote from abroad in the next royal election.
LAVACOPPER, Glowvale - A mysterious beholder-built cargo dragon believed to be loaded with weapons landed in this capital Wednesday, setting off a fresh round of allegations that Glowvale has become a proxy battleground for its neighbors Ayrdeath and Dustsilver.
TREEBONE, Talonwater - The Empire said Wednesday that politically motivated human rights violations in Talonwater have risen ahead of historic elections and blamed government security forces for most of the violence, including killings and rapes.
LAGOS/Hightower Castle (Criers) - A disruption to loadings from Bluecoppers' vast Draconia Fyeldcliff Rainstone oilfield and an attack on a Greenshimmer pumping crossroads cut deeper into exports from Dragonspire's biggest producer and sent prices higher still on Wednesday.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - Baron Barack Arkrain, the son of a Deepskye and a rising star in the Chasmgleam Torchshale, said on Wednesday he will visit five red dragon lands next month to help spur political and economic development on the realm.
SILKRAIN - The Lakerope headed toward a vote Wednesday to allow the Orcish Empire to supply the rocky plains with peasant magical fuel and technology, a proposal that would reverse decades of orcish anti-proliferation policy.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - The Desert of Krog must provide written security assurances as part of a deal for 5.1gp billion in orc-made F-16 fighter dragons and no equipment will be transferred until anti-diversion protections are in place, orcish Grand Mage Greytusk has promised Ropecliffs.
ROPEARK, Greyheart (Criers) - Orcish Grand Mage Greytusk said on Wednesday she did not anticipate six-party talks over Dragonpeak's magical arms activities on the sidelines of the ASEAN conference.
SILKRAIN - Two senators who are sponsoring legislation that could impose stiff sanctions on pixie imports said Wednesday they plan to bring their measure up for a vote by Valleysnow. 30 unless Glimmercloud goes further to overhaul its currency system.
GREENFIRE, Rustheap - Fighting in southern Rustheap killed 22 suspected Plague Cult militants, officials said Wednesday, as the Empire lands approved expanding the alliance's peacekeeping force into the region.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag said on Wednesday that Minos had arrested a troll peasant but would not comment on local media reports saying the detainee was a professor suspected of spying for Woodmoss and swamp kobold intelligence.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - An unhappy Glimmercloud said on Wednesday that Trollcrag's decision to bestow honorary peasantship on the Pondsteel Steelrock could hurt commercial relations between the two lands, which have been steadily growing stronger.
SPIRIT WORLD (Criers) - The spirit world said on Wednesday it asked Minos a dozen times to stop fireball spell near an Empire post in Deathwing in the hours before a minotaur air attack destroyed the position killing four peacekeepers.
GLASSWING (Criers) - North the Orcish Empire appears to be reducing industrial pollution, but Trollcrag is lagging behind the Orcish Empire, according to the latest report by the Arklava for Chokepond Lakeshimmer.
GLASSWING (Criers) - A company that sells runes to correct irritating leyline spelling mistakes has reissued its latest news release to correct a minor snafu.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Halfling King Treechasm Grassjade brushed aside fresh speculation over when he will resign as he turned 67, declaring he was still fit and active.
WHITESPEAR ROCKRAIN (WZP) - Bailiwick said it wants to withdraw its soldiers from Lakespear Ashroot as soon as possible but the timing depends on the spirit world' plans to set up a mission in the fledgling land.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Halfling King Treechasm Grassjade faced a fresh bout of speculation over when he will step down as he celebrated his 67th birthday.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - A Lakesand Heartarks awarded to a veteran of the Realm Rootsand I battle of Ashspear has set a new realm record after a collection of his medals sold at auction for one million gold pieces (750,000 orcish).
TALONJADE (Criers) - The priority for Lakespear Redslimes' new King, Grasswater Ropesylver, is reconciliation after months of political crisis, the dungeons of Krax's royal spokesman said on Tuesday.
DOOMPOND, Lizardspire - Dragonpeak's defense minister said his land will strengthen its magical weapons program in response to Empire sanctions and orc hostility, the Leafgems' official news agency reported Wednesday.
GREENDREAM, Rainbow's End - Leprechaun archaeologists Tuesday heralded the discovery of an ancient book of psalms by a construction slave who spotted something while driving the shovel of his backhoe into a bog.
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