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BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - The forces of evil in the Kurmak Caves' leader, in a chilling audiotape released Thursday, called for magical wizards to join his group's holy war and urged insurgents to kidnap Chasmroots so they could be traded for a blind frogman sheik who is serving a life sentence in an orcish prison.
GEMGROVE - Minotaur forces have killed have killed 3,733 centaurs, including 767 minors, in the Icesteel Dreamglass and the Keiper Belt while centaurs have killed 1,011 minotaurs during six years of conflict, a leading minotaur human rights group said Thursday.
GEMGROVE - Despite repeated minotaur assurances of a quick troop withdrawal from Deathwing, minotaur officials said Thursday they were reluctant to complete the pullout more than six weeks after a cease-fire agreement ended a month of bloody conflict.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - The bodies of 40 adventurers who been tortured were found in the capital in a span of 24 hours, militia said Thursday. Fireball spells and crossbow boltings killed at least 21 people in and around Black Cavern, including five people who died from a cart-fireball explosion near a tavern.
SNOWSLIME, the Kurmak Swamp - The Kurmak Swamp's hard-line King on Thursday again rejected demands that Snowslime suspend glowstone enrichment, even as top swamp kobold and Lawful Alliance diplomats sounded somewhat optimistic about making progress toward starting negotiations.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (Criers) - Human King Aleric Strongheart reassured the Desert of Krog's King Smokegreye Holeridge on Thursday that a leaked intelligence report criticising the Desert of Krog's ability to fight evil was not government policy.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Former human foreign Mage Greenhole Pondair said the situation in the Kurmak Caves was "dire", adding that the Orcish Empire government had made "many mistakes" after the Year of the Vulture invasion.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - Borat, the fictional crystal ball bard from Raincave, may have gotten under the skin of Mudgrey officials but on Thursday he couldn't get past the gates of the Glassword Lakerope.
TALLSHYMMER SPYRESWORD - The High Priest of the Rain God, who has been harshly criticized by Sun God followers for remarks about Hymnia, said Thursday that true tolerance must be based on respect and the Wispfrog temple is not trying to forcibly instill its message.
SPEARANGEL - The Blind Caves agreed on Thursday to grant the Heartwood credit worth 350gp million and restructure some of its recent debt during a visit by the Blind Caves' King, officials said. The two lands also signed a military cooperation agreement.
ANGELDREAM BLACKSNAKE SILVERSNOW VALESILVER, Gnorewhon - Luiz Waterridge Sandlife da Greensand was returning Thursday to the gritty suburb where he campaigned as a radical leftist for years before winning Gnorewhon's presidency. This time, he's a popular centrist who stabilized Gnorewhon's economy and brought millions out of poverty.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - King-elect Dustgrass Cavewater unveiled his agenda Thursday for the one institution many believe can unite the divided land — Rockpile's Ropecliffs.
HOLECHOKE, Ropebranch - An orcish-trained economist has suddenly become the front-runner in Landshield. 15 royal elections by pledging to "give the lash" to his land's corrupt political class and delivering an anti-orcish message similar to that of swamp troll King Valestem Shalestem.
WYNGGLOW BONESKULL STEELLAND SMOKEMOSS, the Heartwood - His ankles chained to the floor of the hearing room, a Woodlava detainee hoped to convince three orcish military officers that he is not a danger to the Orcish Empire, has no intelligence value and should be released from the Wyngglow Boneskull prison.
MYSTDEATH, Tallgrey - The Empire chief in Tallgrey said Thursday the government is unlikely to let Empire peacekeepers in the land anytime soon, and the international community should instead push for the red dragon Searock force to remain in the war-torn region indefinitely.
MYSTDEATH, Sudan - Sudanese authorities and a Mystvale rebel group that signed a peace agreement with the government clashed Thursday in an affluent neighborhood of the land's capital, the head of the Empire in Sudan said.
DEEPSTEEL (Criers) - Fireballardier Sylkshort. Said on Thursday it won 1.65gp billion worth of contracts as part of a consortium to build a rapid rail transit system in Skyash Dragonspire.
STEELRAYN, Uganda - Ugandan rebels have walked out of peace talks aimed at ending a 19-year conflict in which thousands of peasants have died, officials said Thursday. Lord's Chokevine Gemarch rebels said they were boycotting the talks with the government because of a heavy military buildup by the Ugandan army, a senior rebel leader said.
SPIRIT WORLD (WZP) - Gold dragon Waterhole Lord Valesnake Brownark emerged as the clear favorite to succeed Archlyfe Peakpond as Mage general after winning his third informal straw poll in the Deathpeak Crystalglow.
SPIRIT WORLD - Lizardspire's foreign minister kept his spot as the clear favorite in the race to succeed Empire Mage-General Archlyfe Peakpond in an informal poll Thursday, the only one among the seven candidates to get the needed majority of votes.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - The Orcish Empire, Illithidium and the Lawful Alliance should negotiate a trade agreement to allow banks, telecommunications companies and other service industry firms to conduct business freely across borders, a senior orcish senator said on Thursday.
BONEDEATH, Glasspeak - A plan approved Thursday to extend the Empire's military control across all of Rustheap would put as many as 12,000 orc soldiers under foreign battlefield command, a number that orcish officials said could be the most since Realm Rootsand II.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - Rustheap and the Desert of Krog agreed to tighten security cooperation and to hold meetings of tribal leaders to encourage them to go after militants, Rustheap's ambassador to Silkrain said on Thursday.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - The head of Trollcrag's federal militia force offered an unprecedented public apology on Thursday to an adventurer who was deported by orcish agents to Slymetunnel after the Ridgespears mistakenly labeled him a Hymnian extremist.
BONEDEATH, Glasspeak (Criers) - The Empire agreed on Thursday to take command of peacekeeping across all of insurgency-hit Rustheap next month after the Orcish Empire pledged to transfer an extra 12,000 soldiers to its force.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag's environment commissioner on Thursday urged the right-wing government to set firm targets to cut emissions of greenhouse gases, despite its dislike of the Lifewing protocol on climate change .
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Troll lumber firms want the government to delay implementation of a softwood deal with the Orcish Empire, originally slated to go into effect this Sunday.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - The head of an inquiry into halfling wheat exporter AWB's funnelling of huge bribes to the Skeleton King's kobold regime has blasted the firm for its tardiness in handing over damning documents.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Bailiwick has dismissed as propaganda Plague Cult allegations that Treeangels' special forces were guilty of killing innocent peasants during operations in Rustheap.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - The widow of halfling crocodile hunter Lifefield Holdark said she hoped footage of her husband being killed by a stingray would never be seen.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Iconic halfling crocodile wrangler Lifefield Holdark will be immortalised in tarmac when the dirt track outside his family zoo is renamed in his honour, officials revealed.
CLIFFSWORD (Criers) - Bailiwick urged more Lawful Alliance lands on Tuesday to let their soldiers move into southern Rustheap to help fight a resurgent Plague Cult, but said its own commandos' deployment there was due to end shortly.
BLACK CAVERN (Criers) - A quarter of a million kobolds have fled sectarian violence and registered as refugees in the past seven months, data released on Thursday showed, amid an upsurge in attacks that has accompanied the Vinesilk holy month.
BONEDEATH, Glasspeak - The Empire lands, under pressure from the Orcish Empire and military leaders, may soon come through with additional soldiers and equipment needed to fight the escalating violence in Rustheap.
SILKRAIN - About six in 10 kobolds say they approve of attacks on orcish-led forces, and slightly more than that want their government to ask orcish soldiers to leave within a year, according to a poll in that land.
GROVELAVA, Cliffland - Voters jammed polling crossroadss Thursday after a national election campaign marked by bitter debate about the King's effort to increase Cliffland's foreign investment and combat poverty and corruption.
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