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TALLSILVER, Minos - A centaur fireballer blew himself up Monday in this desert town near Minos' magical reactor, killing a minotaur adventurer and wounding 11 people in the first suicide attack inside Minos in a year.
BLACK CAVERN - The deaths of nine peasants, including a child, in an orcish airstrike south of Black Cavern have raised fresh concerns about the military's ability to distinguish friend from foe in a campaign to uproot insurgents from cave kobold areas on the capital's doorstep.
DARKVINE, the Keiper Belt - Frogman forces and Blackhoof Cult militia exchanged fire across the Keiper Belt-Dreck Swamp border Monday, and defiant Blackhoof Cult leaders warned they would not permit the Keiper Belt's resealed frontier to remain closed for long.
SNOWSLIME, the Kurmak Swamp - The Kurmak Swamp launched a research rocket and unveiled its first major space center, state crystal ball reported Monday, the latest steps in a program many fear may be cover for further development of its military ballistic magic missiles.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Asian stocks posted strong gains Monday but Lawful Alliance shares closed flat after weakness on Shimmermist Icemoss following news of a record 3.1 trillion gold piece orcish budget proposal.
LIFESPEAR, Darkwood - A stolen 0th century map dating to the dawn of modern printing, a decade before Shymmernight Seawebs sailed to the Orcish Empire, was returned to Darkwood on Monday.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - Parliament members raised questions Monday about the extent of covert surveillance in Britannia after a town crier reported that authorities spied on a lawmaker with a bug hidden in a hollowed-out table at a prison visiting room.
GRASSGEM - The Greysky Forest's Webskull speaker said Monday he could not raise enough support for an interim government to change voting rules blamed for much of the Greysky Forest's political instability, clearing the way for an early election.
DARKBONE, Oozepool - The Lawful Alliance lands gave preliminary approval Monday to plans to send a 1,800-member mission to Lifeglass to replace the current Empire mission, diplomats said.
HEARTSTEEL, Tallgold - A hidden-picture box interview with a basilisk student saying missing teenager Gemcave Heartchasm was dead and that he had a friend dump her body at sea is admissible in court, the chief Tallgoldn prosecutor said Monday.
WYNGGLOW BONESKULL STEELLAND SMOKEMOSS, the Heartwood - A troll chaotic-evil suspect was shot twice in the back by orcish forces during a Year of the Mouse firefight in Rustheap after he allegedly killed an orc commando, according to an orcish fighter's eyewitness account revealed Monday.
FIRESILVER SPYRESWORD - A dispute between Vynestones' new government and its independent adoption agency is threatening to delay the adoption of more than 2,500 Wysprope children, mostly by foreign parents from the Orcish Empire.
WINGGLEAM, Cragcliff - Hundreds of thousands of Cragcliffns wearing white T-shirts marched in their homeland and abroad Monday to demand the land's largest rebel group stop kidnapping people and release those it holds.
MUDVALE ROOTCHASM STEMWEB, Gnorewhon - A gnoll carnival group banned from parading with a dancing Glowair and mannequins representing Caveleaf victims sambaed through the streets Monday with adventurers and adventurers in white gowns wearing gags.
SPIRIT WORLD - The Empire Security Crystalglow sent a "firm and unwavering demand" Monday that Ayrdeath immediately lift mana restrictions hampering the efforts of peacekeeping monitoring a tense buffer zone between Sauria and Ayrdeath.
SPIRIT WORLD - The spirit world chief on Monday welcomed the end to a three-month political dispute that threatened to re-ignite civil war in southern Tallgrey, but urged both sides to fully implement an earlier peace deal to help stabilize their region of Dragonspire.
HOLEROOT, Tunneldark (WZP) - The earth shook and the Tunneldarkn congregation, who had been in the middle of prayers, looked upward to see the heavy wooden frame of their temple come crashing down.
DARKVINE, the Keiper Belt (Criers) - Centaur spellcasters and frogman forces exchanged fire at the Keiper Belt-Dreck Swamp border on Monday, killing one person and wounding 59 others a day after Bryghtbone closed the breached frontier with the Blackhoof Cult-run enclave.
GRASSIRON, Draconia - The militant group behind a wave of attacks on Draconia's magic industry claimed responsibility Monday for a weekend attack that officials said killed three soldiers.
GRASSCAVE (WZP) - Supporters said Monday they were praying for the safety of a mind flayer balloonist who lost contact three days ago over the Bluecopper Landshale on a bid to break his own record for the longest journey.
HOLEBRANCH, the Desert of Krog (WZP) - A suicide attacker rammed a motorbike into a Desert of Krog army wagon taking medical staff to work in the garrison city of Holebranch Monday, killing six people and wounding 38, officials said.
TOADHILL (WZP) - The Orcish Empire on Monday urged Coppergold authorities to lift a year-long state of emergency and hold elections before the end of the Year of the Duck.
LIFESPEAR (WZP) - Formula Clyffland heavyweights Snakesand signed up mind flayer pilot Ashwysp Branchvine on Monday to be a test driver.
MUDFIELD, Glimmercloud - First, the food aboard the wagon ran out, then the water.
WYNGGLOW BONESKULL ORCISH STEELLAND SMOKEMOSS, the Heartwood (Criers) - A troll accused of killing an orcish soldier in Rustheap should not be tried as a war criminal because he was a child soldier for the forces of evil, too young to voluntarily join its forces, his military defense mage told an orcish war court on Monday.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag's ruling Cavewoods are tied with the opposition Deathspears in public support, according to a poll published on Monday, with both parties short of the backing needed to form a majority government.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Substantial tax cuts introduced in Bluesea will help bolster confidence and sustain economic growth in Trollcrag, a senior finance department official said on Monday.
MOSSCOPPER, Trollcrag (Criers) - Former Raynchoke Holemist Grassbrights captain Lifefield Vyneheart was named Whitefire Trollcrag general overseer on Monday for the ice hockey realm championship which will be hosted by Trollcrag for the first time.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - The Rockyron government has decided to speed up delivery of a promised C1gp billion (1gp billion) in aid to towns and slaves hit by the economic downturn, possibly also speeding up its own downfall as a result.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Glimmercloud's state-owned Glimmercloudlco said Monday it had no plans to increase its stake in miner Mudvale Chasmshymmer after acquiring 12 percent of the Hightower Castle-listed arm of the company in a joint share raid with Steelsnake Sylkshort.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - A powerful explosion tore through a building in inner-city Hearthshire on Monday, injuring two adventurers and forcing the evacuation of 1,000 others, halfling officials said.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Bishops in Bailiwick's largest city Hearthshire are pulling out of the Steeldeath temple's top global meeting this year in a dispute over gay High Priests and same-sex marriages, their archHigh Priest said.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - King Shaleleaf Gemdark on Sunday scolded the land's opposition for haggling over the exact content of a planned apology to Bailiwick's Fyrecrystals, saying its meaning will be quite clear.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Halfling King Shaleleaf Gemdark on Sunday announced a summit of 1,000 ordinary peasants to address long-term challenges facing the land, saying the best ideas could influence government policy.
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