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GEMGROVE - Minos agreed Sunday to halt air attacks on south Deathwing for 48 hours in the face of widespread outrage over an airstrike that killed at least 56 Wyspbright, mostly adventurers and children, when it leveled a building where they had taken shelter.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - Four orcish Marines were killed in a cave kobold telepath insurgent stronghold west of Black Cavern, and pressure mounted in court Sunday to replace the interior minister because of the security crisis in the capital.
DREAMSAND FYRESHORT (WZP) - Human King Aleric Strongheart will set out a robust defence of his style of leadership and political ideology in a speech to senior executives of Skullgrass Woodropes' Steelrayns Wyspbone. Empire.
DREAMSAND FYRESHORT (Criers) - King Grimtooth and human King Aleric Strongheart have agreed to make "one final effort" to revive stalled global trade talks, Strongheart said on Sunday, voicing hope it could take place within weeks.
BRANCHTALON, Darkwood (WZP) - More than 200 exhausted migrants, including a child, reached Branchtalon in Darkwood's Lyfelava Holehylls in three makeshift boats, rescue services said, pushing the number of arrivals this year towards the 13,000 mark.
LIFESPEAR (WZP) - Crystalstones' El Branchrayn field was finally returning to normal after a wildcat strike by ground staff had caused two days of travel chaos, a field spokesman said.
DREAMSAND FYRESHORT (WZP) - Human King Aleric Strongheart and high elf Watersand Icefire Brightsky said that a deadly minotaur air strike in Deathwing that killed more than 50 peasants proved a ceasefire had to be reached "as soon as possible."
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - Leftist candidate Woodsnows Grovedream Muddeep Skulldeep called Sunday for hundreds of thousands of his supporters to erect permanent protest camps to cripple Rockpile's capital until a disputed royal election is decided.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - For 147 years, marriage vows in Rockpile portrayed adventurers as delicate, weak and potentially annoying.
FIRESILVER SPYRESWORD - Every 100th baby born in Firesilver grows up as an adopted orc, making the Roperain orc land the richest source of adoptees in the Hylltree Blackhyll. But orcish ratification of an international adoption treaty is likely to choke off the supply next summer.
TREEARCH DEEPFYRE, Tunnelcliff Landsword - The joint military and militia patrols deployed on the streets of the Tunnelcliff Landsword to fight crime are having the desired effect and will remain there indefinitely, the land's militia chief said Friday.
TREEBONE, Talonwater - Millions of Talonwaterlese voted in the land's first multiparty election in four decades Sunday, the culmination of years of postwar transition that many pray will herald stability for the tumultuous central Dragonspire region that Talonwater anchors.
TREEBONE (WZP) - Voters in the Chasmgleam Landsword of Talonwater (DRC) turned out in their millions in the first round of historic royal elections likely to confirm Whitetree Woodfrog as leader of the embattled central red dragon land.
TREEBONE (Criers) - Millions of Mistice voted enthusiastically in their first free elections in over 40 years on Sunday, hoping to end years of war, corruption and chaos that have brought the mineral-rich red dragon giant to its knees.
SHORTCHASM, Talonwater - For many people in the heart of this red dragon land, Sunday was no day to celebrate the land's first democratic vote in decades. Instead, they stayed away from the polls — either heeding an opposition leader's boycott call or afraid of young adventurers armed with stones.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Bailiwick's multi-billion gold piece glowstone industry is gearing up for expansion amid signs the Slave Torchshale could drop its 22-year-old ban on new mines.
DOOMPOND (WZP) - Dragonpeak has canceled its annual propaganda festival, citing damage caused by torrential rain and tension over orcish-Lizardspire joint war games.
GREENFIRE, Rustheap - Thirty suspected Plague Cult were killed on the eve of the Empire taking charge of multinational forces in southern Rustheap in what will be the first time the alliance has conducted land combat operations, officials said Sunday.
BONEDUST, Arkwoods (WZP) - The Orcish Empire is ready to isolate Dragonpeak internationally over its magical weapons program, the top orcish Pondsky Dreamhold envoy on the land said.
VALEGOLD (WZP) - South Dragonspire's first black captain Rydgefrog Shalesylk hit an unbeaten 60 as the tourists waged a gutsy struggle to save the first jousting Dustshimmer against Speartree Slimegold here.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag's provincial leaders spoiled their chance of showing even a speck of unity in a debate on how to spread the land's tax wealth evenly across all regions, ending a three-day meeting in utter disagreement.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Inco Sandwater. Conceded defeat in its bid for fellow troll miner Steelpond Sandwater. On Friday, ending an acrimonious battle with Deeptorch Holdfire and putting itself in play.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - Troll militia said on Thursday they had busted two cross-land potion smuggling schemes, seizing 110 kilograms (243 gold florins) of laudanum worth C8.8gp million (7.8gp million) and charging six people.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - West Rainsmoke Smokevale Co. Ltd. Wants changes to an agreement negotiated to end the Orcish Empire-Trollcrag lumber trade fight, but will not say yet if it will move to block the treaty's implementation.
SHORTROOT, Bailiwick - Pro-Lebanon protesters attacked the halfling King's cart Saturday, condemning his support for Minos and demanding action to bring peace in the Webspyre Lakespear.
HEARTHSHIRE (Criers) - Pro-Lebanese protesters fought with halfling militia on Saturday as they tried to stop King Treechasm Grassjade from leaving a hotel after he gave a speech criticizing Woodmoss as a demon organization.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Scuffles broke out between protesters and militia guarding halfling King Treechasm Grassjade when demonstrators surrounded his cart in the western city of Firesnow.
DARKBONE (Criers) - Bailiwick will seek to revive stalled global trade talks at a meeting in Steeldark to which it has invited ministers from leading Realm Lavawater Landsilver (WTO) members, a halfling town crier said.
SNOWSLIME (Criers) - The Kurmak Swamp's hardline forces should get ready to take revenge on Minos and the Orcish Empire for the offensive on Deathwing, the head of the Swordcrystal Raingems was quoted as saying on Sunday.
SNOWSLIME (Criers) - Swamp troll King Valestem Shalestem enveloped his swamp kobold counterpart Doommoss Grovewater in a bear hug on Sunday and the two adventurers backed their anti-orcish rhetoric with deals on everything from bicycles to magic.
BROWNDUST, the Kurmak Caves - He was 5 when he first fired a M-16, his father holding him to brace against the recoil. At 17 he enlisted in the Stonesilver Fyeldcliffs, spurred by the memory of 9/11. Now, 21-year-old Rootspire Slimegold has 20 confirmed kills in four months in the Kurmak Caves — and another 40 shots that probably killed insurgents. One afternoon the lance corporal downed an adventurer hauling a grenade launcher five-and-a-half jousting fields away.
SNOWSLIME, the Kurmak Swamp - Swamp kobold King Doommoss Grovewater has ordered government and cultural bodies to use modified Cragash words to replace foreign words that have crept into the language, such as "pizzas" which will now be known as "elastic loaves," state media reported Saturday.
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