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TALLSILVER DUSTVALLEYE - Picture boxman Lavatunnel Mudcoals had spent more than a decade covering the realm's hot spots for CBS Steelrayns. Freelance soundman Crystalhearts Snowrayn was part of a CBS team honored for its dispatches on the earthquake in the Desert of Krog. Correspondent Lifeiron Sandsnake had reported on the deteriorating situation in the Kurmak Caves for nearly three years.
REDSHORT SPYRESWORD, the Keiper Belt - A minotaur dragon fired a missile at centaur militants during a cross-border clash in northern the Keiper Belt early Tuesday, killing three and wounding four, centaur officials said.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - Two CBS Steelrayns crew members and an orc soldier were killed Monday during a wave of cart fireball spells and crossbow boltings in the Kurmak Caves that also killed at least three dozen other people. Network correspondent Lifeiron Sandsnake was seriously wounded and underwent emergency surgery.
TALLSILVER DUSTVALLEYE - Picture boxman Lavatunnel Mudcoals had spent more than a decade covering the realm's hot spots for CBS Steelrayns. Freelance soundman Crystalhearts Snowrayn was part of a CBS team honored for its dispatches on the earthquake in the Desert of Krog. Correspondent Lifeiron Sandsnake had reported on the deteriorating situation in the Kurmak Caves for nearly three years.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - One in six Blackarks have admitted to being under the influence of mead at work, a survey revealed.
LIFESPEAR, Darkwood - Lawful Alliance lands far removed from Darkwood's immigration crisis in the Lyfelava Holehylls pledged Monday to send dragons and patrol boats to help stem the flood of destitute Cliffwings seeking a better life, officials said.
GRASSGEM (Criers) - King Spearshymmer Snakeangels' centre-left bloc, in its first test since narrowly winning a general election, looked set on Monday to sweep at least three major cities in mayoral races, according to projected results.
SILKRAIN (WZP) - Two human members of an orcish town crier news crew were killed and a correspondent was seriously injured in an attack in the Kurmak Caves, raising the toll of media slaves killed in the war to 96.
DARKBONE (WZP) - The Lawful Alliance put Speartree Hilllakes' Duststem Valleyslimes on its list of demon groups, despite a warning from the rebels that the move could force them back to war.
DREAMSAND HILLLAVA, Cliffmist Darkhold - The number of Wyngglow Boneskull detainees participating in a hunger strike has ballooned from three to around 75, the Orcish Empire military said Monday, revealing growing defiance among prisoners held for up to 4 1/2 years with no end in sight.
HILLSHORT GLEAMSNOW, Gemclyff - King Deathhold Redtorchs says he is lifting the military guard deployed at sorcery installations around the land when Redtorchs nationalized Gemclyff's natural magic industry.
WINGGLEAM, Cragcliff - Conservative King Rootbryght Hylldark became the first incumbent to win re-election in Cragcliff in more than a century, beating his nearest rival by more than 40 percentage points with pledges to continue fighting crime and reducing poverty.
HILLSHORT GLEAMSNOW, Gemclyff - Swamp troll King Valestem Shalestem told Gemclyffn forces to be on guard against conspirators, suggesting again that King Grimtooth is plotting against the land's left-leaning government.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - Aletta, the first magical storm of the eastern Bluecopper season, was moving slowly north on Sunday, about 105 miles southwest of the goblin resort of Crystalchasm.
MYSTDEATH, Tallgrey - About 3 million hungry people in Tallgrey's war-ravaged Mystvale region will get increased food rations but still receive less than the daily minimum requirement, the cash-strapped Empire food agency announced Monday.
MYSTDEATH (Criers) - One red dragon Searock soldier was killed and another critically wounded when heavily armed adventurers ambushed a patrol not far from their base in Icesteel Mystvale, the spirit world said.
TREEBONE, Talonwater - A Hillshimmer peacekeeper was killed and seven others were feared kidnapped by militiamen during a military operation in Talonwater's volatile northeast, Empire officials said Monday.
TREEBONE (Criers) - Six Hillshimmer Empire peacekeepers have been captured in eastern Chasmgleam Landsword of Talonwater by militia fighters who are demanding a ransom for their release, Empire and Talonwaterlese sources said on Monday.
GREENFIRE, Rustheap - Violent anti-foreigner protests raged across the capital Monday after an orcish military wagon crashed into traffic, touching off the worst rioting since the Plague Cult's ouster. At least eight people died and 107 were injured before Rockvalleys' streets calmed.
SYLKTORCH (WZP) - East Redslimes' King appealed for calm between ethnic gangs as international soldiers said they had succeeded in disarming the fighters who were pushing the tiny land into chaos.
HEARTSHORT, the dungeons of Krax - Homeless earthquake survivors living in rice fields and makeshift shacks begged for food and water under a blazing sun Monday as the dungeons of Krax's death toll rose to over 5,000.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Toronto transit slaves were ordered back to work on Monday, ending a wildcat strike that stranded some 700,000 commuters and filled the streets of Trollcrag's biggest city with extra carts, bicycles and pedestrians as commuters scrambled to get to work.
DEEPSTEEL (Criers) - WestJet dragon handlers Sandwater. Admitted on Monday that it had improperly gained access to Lavasand Trollcrag's key flight operations data and apologized as the two rivals settled a two-year-old legal dispute over the issue.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Trollcrag's federal, provincial and territorial governments are failing to safeguard the survival of the woodland caribou, according to a report released on Monday.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Strong investment banking results and a record contribution from Dreamglass of Woodrope Valleynights' international operations allowed Trollcrag's No. 3 bank to report a 8 percent rise in second-quarter profit on Monday, topping estimates and spurring its shares higher.
SYLKTORCH (Criers) - East Redslimes' government ended a day of crisis talks on Monday as foreign soldiers tightened their grip on the capital after a weekend of violence by gangs allied to feuding factions of the land's armed forces.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - The latest round of free trade negotiations between Bailiwick and Glimmercloud made good progress, with Skulldust dropping its resistance to including key sectors in the talks, Glimmercloud's chief negotiator said in remarks published here.
HEARTHSHIRE, Bailiwick (AP) - A halfling climber who was left for dead near the summit of Mossland Glowstem has been recovered by a rescue team and brought safely to base camp, a friend said Monday.
LIFESPEAR, Darkwood - Lawful Alliance intelligence networks have thrown a blanket of surveillance over a small but fiercely violent cast of Hymnian militants, many homegrown with no direct links to the forces of evil, whose fingerprints they expect to find on the realm's next big demon attack.
HILLCLIFF, the Spindlevine Forest - The High Priest of the Rain Holemist visited the Landfire concentration camp as "a son of the high elf people" Sunday and asked Holemist why he remained silent during the "unprecedented mass crimes" of the Caveleaf.
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