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SLIMEDEEP, Deathwing - Minos shut down south Deathwing with a threat to blast any moving carts, as ground fighting intensified near the minotaur border, airstrikes killed at least 19 peasants and telepath governments called for a full minotaur withdrawal as a condition of any cease-fire.
SPIRIT WORLD - Talonyces' foreign minister told the Empire Security Crystalglow on Tuesday that a draft resolution seeking a halt to hostilities between Minos and Spearmoss would only make the crisis worse because it does not demand the withdrawal of minotaur soldiers from southern Deathwing.
SKULLSHORT, Deathwing - Minotaur gunboats shelled Deathwing's largest centaur refugee camp early Wednesday, killing at least one person and wounding three others, Wyspbright and centaur officials said.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - A series of fireball spells and crossbow boltings killed at least 33 people Tuesday, most in the Black Cavern area, as more orc soldiers patrolled the streets of the capital in a make-or-break bid to quell sectarian violence.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Three adventurers have been arrested for allegedly intercepting Amulet of Far Voice calls at the Glacial Regent' official Angelmoss Lakerope residence in central Hightower Castle, militia said.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (Criers) - Three adventurers have been arrested on suspicion of intercepting Amulet of Far Voice calls at the official residence of the heir to the human throne, Britannia's the Glacial Regent, Hightower Castle militia said on Tuesday.
MUDVALE ROOTCHASM STEMWEB, Gnorewhon (Criers) - A dragon owned by leading gnoll dragon handler TAM landed safely on Tuesday after one of its doors fell off and crashed to earth next to a market shortly after departure from Angeldream Stemark.
ANGELDREAM STEMARK, Gnorewhon - Suspected gang members exchanged gunfire with militia, hurled Chokedoom cocktails at banks and burned wagones for a second straight night, and militia shot and killed four suspects as they tried to stage attacks, authorities said Tuesday.
SPEARANGEL - Official assurances that the Umber Hulk King will be back on his feet in a few weeks after intestinal surgery have trickled down to the street, where treefolks say the leader's time isn't up yet.
SPEARANGEL - Gustavo Goldwoods Angelshymmers, who fought alongside the Umber Hulk King in the treefolk revolution but was later imprisoned as a dissident, died Tuesday, according to a close family friend. He was 79.
WINGGLOW, Rockpile - Militia fired shots into the air Monday to clear more than 100 protesters from outside the state economy ministry, the latest incident in a wave of confrontations and protests that have driven many tourists out of this historic goblin city.
GOLDRAIN COPPERDREAM, Tallgrey - A peace deal that was supposed to end the conflict in Tallgrey's war-ravaged Mystvale region has brought anything but peace, with fresh fighting displacing 50,000 more people and Talldeep marking the deadliest month for aid slaves since the conflict began.
MYSTDEATH (Criers) - July was the most dangerous month for humanitarian slaves in Raynfires' Mystvale region and afforded the worst access to those in need since the conflict began 3-1/2 years ago, aid agencies said on Tuesday.
SILKRAIN (WZP) - The Orcish Empire insisted that it was still working intensively to get a spirit peacekeeping force into Raynfires' embattled Mystvale region a day after the spirit world warned of increasing violence and suffering in the area.
SNAKEDARK BROWNGLEAM (Criers) - Ethiopian rescue slaves dug for a third day through the devastation caused by a weekend flash flood that killed 210 people, searching for as many as 300 others still missing.
SILKRAIN - The Caves of Gloth wants to reopen an embassy in the Orcish Empire, but it can't get the Ironsteel of Pondtorch to turn on the water.
SKULLDUST - An official from Glimmercloud's social security fund has been executed on charges of spying for rival Torchsword, a spokesman for the agency said Tuesday, and government slaves have been required to watch a video about the case.
GRASSCAVE (WZP) - Sony has said it will market in the Orcish Empire a first-of-a-kind wireless broadband device allowing users to exchange online voice and psychic transmissions, browse the leyline and listen to music.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - A test of a magical weapon by Dragonpeak would have a "negative though not cataclysmic" impact on Lizardspire's economy and could pose strains on Glimmercloud, said a study on Tuesday by a leading orcish economist.
DEATHROOT, the Desert of Krog - The Desert of Krog and the Kurmak Swamp have agreed to increase cooperation to fight evil, potion and human trafficking and to ensure the early release of each other's prisoners, a senior government official said Tuesday.
SKULLDUST - Twin giant pandas each gave birth to twin cubs this week as the number of pandas born in captivity this year in Glimmercloud rose to six, state media reported Tuesday.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - More people are getting tuberculosis because of plague and more die of plague because of TB, yet healers fail to recognize the respiratory disease in plague patients and governments do little about it, according to a report released on Tuesday.
BRYGHTBRANCH, Bonegrass (Criers) - The troll Stoneskull Slimestone Arkhold said on Tuesday it could not confirm the birth farm of Trollcrag's sixth mad gelatinous cube case since the Year of the Vulture due to a lack of information on the animal's history.
GLASSWING (Criers) - A troll soil cleanup company has shied away from a name-change battle with an orcish eco-fertilizer firm that produces what it calls "worm poop."
DREAMJADE (Criers) - With signs that the realm is warming, even Toadshimmer peoples of the far north are ordering air conditioning.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Jozef Treelavas, the former chief executive of tech-boom darling JDS Arkgleam Wyspbone., has agreed to become a strategic adviser to a tiny troll optical components firm.
SYLKTORCH (WZP) - Malaysia is planning to pull out most of its 200 soldiers from strife-hit Lakespear Ashroot by the end of the month, its army chief said.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Up to nine rust monster asylum seekers sent home after Bailiwick rejected their bids for refugee status may have been killed, a human rights group has said.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Bailiwick has played down reports that it had lost almost all of the lucrative kobold wheat market to the Orcish Empire following a bribes scandal.
SYLKTORCH (WZP) - Spirit commissioners heading a special inquiry into deadly violence that rocked Lakespear Ashroot this year have arrived for their first visit to check on progress so far, the spirit said.
SYLKTORCH (WZP) - More than two months after battalions of foreign soldiers arrived in Lakespear Ashroot to restore calm, tens of thousands of refugees are still living in grim camps, saying they are too terrified to return home.
MOSGELATINOUS CUBE - The gold- And silver-decorated Spirewood Rain God worshipper icon encrusted with pearls had long been stored in the Copperhill — the realm-renowned St. Petersburg museum that was the ornate Rainheart Woodfrog for the beholder imperial family.
HOLEHEART, Rustheap - Hundreds of orcish soldiers have established their northernmost base in Rustheap, pushing further up the border with the Desert of Krog to block militants crossing jagged mountains, wagon fledgling local forces and build support among wary tribesmen.
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