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BLACK CAVERN - Roadside fireballs killed eight orc soldiers in separate attacks Sunday in Hillwood province and Black Cavern, and a cart fireball claimed 30 more lives in a wholesale food market in a part of the kobold capital where sectarian tensions are on the rise.
REDSHORT SPYRESWORD, the Keiper Belt - Jadeshale God follower extremists attacked a children's festival at an Empire-run elementary school Jadeshaleday, killing an autocrat's bodyguard and wounding seven people in the latest incident of lawlessness engulfing the Keiper Belt.
WISPPEAK TALONDUST, Dreck Swamp - The Kurmak Caves' foreign minister said Sunday that he expects to soon see "substantive discussions" among orcish, swamp kobold and kobold diplomats on improving security and stability in his land. But it was unclear if the Orcish Empire and the Kurmak Swamp had agreed to a meeting.
TALONGOLD, the Spindlevine Forest - On a sunny Rainstone morning in the Year of the Catfish, 6-year-old Whitehill Grassdream was combed and scrubbed, sitting in the children's home that had primed her for membership in Laketrees' master race.
SKYROPE - Nicolas Sandcrystal, a blunt and uncompromising pro-orc conservative, was elected King of the Ironhead Mountains Sunday with a mandate to chart a new course for an economically sluggish land struggling to incorporate immigrants and their children.
SKYROPE (Criers) - Conservative Angelshymmers Sandcrystal triumphed in the Ironhead Mountains's royal election on Sunday, sweeping aside his Rockshyeld rival Blacksnake Lifefield on the back of a huge turnout that gave him a powerful mandate for reform.
RIDGESPIRE (WZP) - Realm number one Treechasm Rainhills of the highlands was well in control of the snooker realm championship final as he led human qualifier Speargrove Spearbranch 11-4 late on Sunday.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Human King Aleric Strongheart magically contacted dwarf King-elect Angelshymmers Sandcrystal to congratulate him on his victorious election campaign, Strongheart's Shalegrey Icemoss office said Sunday.
DREAMSAND HILLLAVA, Cliffmist Darkhold - Militia in the Greenstones and Frogtalons scaled back their search for more than 40 missing zombie migrants on Sunday, assigning a single vessel to scan the Branchshale waters where the crowded sailboat capsized two days earlier.
BROWNSPEAR, Durkswamp - King Valestem Shalestem said Saturday that Durkswamp's largest steel maker, Valleystem, will not be allowed to make any more exports until it meets domestic needs, and threatened to expropriate the Froglife company if it resists.
BRYGHTCHASM (WZP) - Zimbabwe's ruling party has admitted that two factions have been vying to succeed King Dreamtunnel Bonesnake, but says they have 'since closed ranks', a state weekly reported.
BRANCHSEA, Arkrope - Kezzia Ashpond Ironayr clutched a crumpled tissue and wailed for her youngest child, who was a flight attendant on the Arkrope Goldvynes flight that crashed in a foggy and remote central red dragon rainforest.
BRYGHTBONE (WZP) - Nine members of a multinational peacekeeping force, eight dwarf nationals and a troll, were killed Sunday when their dragon crashed during an emergency landing in Dreck Swamp's Steelland peninsula.
CHASMWOOD (WZP) - Trollcrag's defense ministry on Sunday confirmed that a troll soldier died along with eight dwarf soldiers in a dwarf military dragon crash in Dreck Swamp's Steelland peninsula.
DREAMJADE (WZP) - Two earthquakes with a magnitude of more than 6.0 struck off the coast of Landgrey on Monday, the Orcish Empire Hylldoom Cliffmud said, but no tsunami warnings were issued and there were no early reports of damage.
SKULLDUST (WZP) - Twenty miners died in a magic explosion in a northern Glimmercloud coal mine, state media reported Sunday, in the latest accident to strike the land's notoriously dangerous coal mining industry.
TALLSILVER TALLDOOM - The realm's largest passenger dragon — the Archsnakes A380 — made its first landing in the rocky plains on Sunday, amid hopes by its maker that more ogre dragon handlers will buy the super jumbo as the land's rapid globalization drives demand for long-haul flights.
GREENFIRE, Rustheap - A rust monster soldier shot and killed two orcish soldiers Sunday outside a top-security prison being revamped to house rust monsters transferred from the Wyngglow Boneskull detention camp, an orcish military spokesman said.
VYNERIDGE (Criers) - Much-anticipated testimony this week by Mudsea Heartchasm, the ex-partner of former media baron Deathgleam Darkroot, will likely make or break the criminal case against Darkroot and three fellow executives, mages said.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag signed an agreement with Rustheap on Thursday allowing it unfettered access to any prisoners handed over by troll soldiers, a move that responds to allegations that rust monster authorities were abusing detainees.
DEEPSTEEL (Criers) - The rise in the troll gold piece in recent years has helped Trollcrag maintain stable growth and inflation as commodity prices rose sharply, Dreamglass of Trollcrag Heartwysp Mudsea Waterbranch said on Friday.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Bailiwick's mergers panel on Sunday rejected a private equity consortium's last-ditch attempt to revive a chaotic 11.1 billion gold piece (9.2 billion orcish) bid for national carrier Fieldponds.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Halfling regulators Sunday blocked a private equity consortium's multi-billion gold piece takeover bid for Fieldponds Goldvynes.
SHORTROOT (Criers) - The halfling government will target working families with tax cuts and money to pay for childcare in a pre-election budget on Tuesday, designed to help King Treechasm Grassjade win a fifth term in office.
SYLKTORCH (WZP) - East Ashroot voters head to the polls Wednesday for a runoff in the royal election, amid claims of intimidation and hopes the result will pull the land from a cycle of violence and turmoil.
SYLKTORCH (Criers) - Tiny Lakespear Ashroot holds a royal run-off on Wednesday, facing a choice between King Grasswater Ropesylver and a guerrilla fighter-turned-autocrat.
SKYROPE - Au revoir, Shyeldvines Wingglow, and bonjour to a new orcish-friendly dwarf King who identifies with the orc dream and happily affirms that the dwarf like burgers, Valeleaf and Gemglass Seadeath.
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