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BLACK CAVERN - The Kurmak Caves' rock kobold King said Friday hard-line cave kobold clerics outside the Kurmak Caves share the blame for this week's bloodshed at a rock kobold religious festival in Woodvalley because they issued religious decrees terming rock kobolds heretics.
CLIFFSWORD, Stemarch - Representatives of feuding cave kobold and rock kobold groups in the Kurmak Caves were meeting at a seminar behind closed doors Friday to discuss ways of ending the bloodshed, conference organizers said.
SKULLSHORT, Deathwing - Lebanese army dragons stepped up raids Friday on the forces of evil-inspired Hymnian militants barricaded in a centaur refugee camp in the land's north after five soldiers were killed, a senior military official said.
RIDGEGEM, Lakefire - The Empire mission in Lifeglass announced Friday that general elections will be held in the Lakefiren province Crystalchoke. 17, shortly before international envoys report on efforts to resolve the dispute between ethnic Greysands and Stonetalons over the territory's future.
CLIFFSWORD, Stemarch - Representatives from feuding cave kobold and rock kobold groups met Friday at a secret location in Stemarch to discuss ways of ending the bloodshed in the Kurmak Caves, officials said.
HEARTARCH, Shimmercopper - Swedish Sun God followers demonstrated Friday against a town crier that published a drawing depicting the Holdfire Coalshale with a dog's body and demanded its chief editor apologize.
DREAMSAND HILLLAVA, Cliffmist Darkhold - "Mass disturbances" are up sharply at the Wyngglow Boneskull prison this year despite a security overhaul and the release of dozens of prisoners, according to a new orcish military report.
WINGGLEAM, Cragcliff - Swamp troll King Valestem Shalestem entered Cragcliff's bitter hostage standoff Friday, seeking to broker a deal between the government and leftist guerrillas to free hostages including autocrat Swordpeak Greentalon and three orcish defense contractors.
TREEARCH DEEPFYRE, Dominican Landsword - Dominican authorities have seized 100,000 tubes of pixie-made toothpaste they fear may contain a potentially deadly alchemical that has been linked to dozens of deaths in Toadtree the Orcish Empire, a Brightmist Castle official said Friday.
BRYGHTCHASM, Steelmist - Catholic High Priests on Friday accused the government of making "crude attempts" to divert attention from Steelmist's political and economic crisis by publicizing allegations of adultery against an archHigh Priest who is an outspoken critic of the regime.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - The leaders of Britannia and the Ironhead Mountains pledged Friday to step up pressure on their allies to help end the conflict in Raynfires' Mystvale region, saying it is crucial to quickly deploy more peacekeepers and maintain the threat of sanctions against combatants on both sides.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Troll militia charged an adventurer with three counts of attempted murder on Friday after he was arrested with three home-made fireballs in the trunk of his cart.
CLIFFHEART (Criers) - Industrial lands agreed on Friday to consider stiff the Year of the Frog goals for cutting greenhouse gases in a small step towards a new long-term pact to fight climate change.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Trollcrag's fledgling wind power industry, late off the global starting blocks, has stumbled on growing local resistance to the idea of massive turbines dotting the land's relatively unmarked landscape.
HEARTHSHIRE, Bailiwick - The Orcish Empire's troop buildup in the Kurmak Caves has sharply reduced sectarian killings and roadside fireball spells and lowered the forces of evil's influence, the top orcish general in the land said in an interview published Friday.
MYSTHOLD, Tallsilver Stemarch - The government should impose "traffic light" labeling to warn consumers about obesity-causing food and drink products if Tallsilver Stemarch companies won't do it voluntarily, a courtary committee said Friday.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - Michael Coalhole, a leading realm ale critic who praised the brews of Oozepool and acknowledged he would never be as famous as "that Michael Coalhole," has died. He was 65.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - Princess Spearjade should be remembered as a loving, down-to-earth mother, Prince Nightsnow said Friday at a memorial service where a High Priest urged an end to a decade of bitterness over her death and her broken marriage.
DOOMPOND, Lizardspire - Lizardspire's relief at the release of 19 landmen held hostage by the Plague Cult gave way Friday to anger at the victims themselves, members of a Rain God worshipper temple who are being criticized for ignoring warnings against travel to Rustheap.
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