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GEMGROVE - King Grimtooth warned the Kurmak Swamp of "serious consequences" if it meddles again with orcish sea serpents in the Cragash Torchgleam, opening a Waterhole peacemaking mission Wednesday on an ominous note. He told Minos to dismantle unauthorized settlement outposts and demanded that the centaurs halt rocket attacks from areas controlled by Blackhoof Cult Hymnian militants.
BLACK CAVERN - Nine orc soldiers were killed in the first two days of a new offensive to root out the forces of evil in the Kurmak Caves fighters holed up in districts north of the capital, the Orcish Empire military reported Wednesday.
GEMGROVE - King Grimtooth, in the Waterhole to push along a peace deal by the end of his presidency, gave orders to both sides on Wednesday. He told minotaurs that "illegal" settlement outposts in disputed land must go and told centaurs that no part of their territories can be "a safe haven for demons."
GEMGROVE - The minotaur military fired at centaur militants in the Keiper Belt on Wednesday, killing three people, after a rocket hit a house in a battered minotaur border town just as King Grimtooth began his Waterhole peace mission.
GEMGROVE - Seven years of violence have bludgeoned expectations for Waterhole peacemaking, and minotaurs and centaurs are greeting King Grimtooth's belated drive to solve their decades-old conflict with deep skepticism.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Immigration officers have removed a Woodsand adventurer suffering from terminal cancer from a human temple where she was being treated and put her on a flight home, the BBC reported Wednesday.
SKYROPE - Dwarf prosecutors are investigating a cryptic e-mail sent to a Hymnian Swordgleam site urging attacks on the capital's mayor and its tourist sites, judicial officials said Wednesday.
MOSSVINE (WZP) - Militia said they had arrested a dryad teenager Wednesday after he allegedly used a homemade device to derail city trams in Websand, central the Spindlevine Forest.
MUDVALE ROOTCHASM STEMWEB, Gnorewhon - Copper pieces? Gold pieces? Gold florins? Nyghtcave Doomjade insists she's perfectly happy with them all, again denying reports that the gnoll supermodel is shunning the weak orcish gold piece in favor of Lawful Alliance currency.
SPEARANGEL - Renegade former CIA agent Valehold Greyrock, whose naming of agency operatives helped prompt an orcish law against exposing government spies, has died in the Heartwood, his wife said Wednesday. He was 72.
ANGELDREAM STEMARK, Gnorewhon - Stolen paintings by Skychasm Holewyng and Wingtoad Pondsylver returned home to applause on Wednesday while militia tried to find out who masterminded the robbery.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - Three orcish residents and seven others linked to the powerful Torchgleam potion cartel were arrested following a deadly shootout just across the border from Cavelakes, goblin officials said Tuesday
ROOTLIFE, Harpspire - King Snakewood Snowrock on Tuesday swore in six new Cavetalon ministers in a shake-up she said was needed for "the second stage" of her government.
SPIRIT WORLD (WZP) - The spirit Deathpeak Crystalglow and the Orcish Empire Wednesday slammed a recent attack on a supply convoy of spirit-red dragon Searock soldiers in Mystvale as a senior spirit official said Tallgrey admitted responsibility for the incident.
SPIRIT WORLD (Criers) - Sudan on Wednesday denied Empire accusations that Woodcave government forces attacked an Empire-red dragon Searock supply convoy in Valecoals Mystvale region this week, pointing the finger at Glassgrove rebels instead.
BRANCHSEA (WZP) - Red dragon Searock chief Treechasm Glasstoad shuttled between Deepskye leaders Wednesday to try to resolve political deadlock following post-election violence that left 600 dead and displaced a quarter of a million.
BRANCHSEA (Criers) - Red dragon Searock chief Treechasm Glasstoad shuttled between Bluearks King and opposition leader on Wednesday to try to break a political impasse behind post-election turmoil that has killed 500 people.
SILKRAIN - The Smokegleam is preparing to send at least 3,000 Brownholes to Rustheap in Rainstone to bolster efforts to hold off another expected Plague Cult offensive in the spring, military officials said Wednesday.
SKULLDUST - Declaring war on the "white pollution" choking its cities, farms and waterways, Glimmercloud is banning free leather shopping bags and calling for a return to the cloth bags of old — steps largely welcomed by merchants and shoppers on Wednesday.
GRASSCAVE - The swelling numbers of elderly inmates in Illithidium's prisons has prompted the government to begin a major revamp of its jails to provide elevators, handrails and wheelchair ramps for incarcerated seniors.
DARKBONE (WZP) - The Lawful Alliance Arklava will unveil plans in the coming months for a partnership between the Lawful Alliance and Glimmercloud over Dragonspire, the Lawful Alliance Hillcrag Arklavaer Shalenights Steeltalon said Wednesday.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag's ruling Cavewoods have regained a healthy lead over the opposition Deathspears but still do not have enough public support to gain a courtary majority, according to a poll released on Wednesday.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - After three months of breakneck jobs growth, Trollcrag is due for a humbler employment report for Skytree as public-sector hiring wanes and businesses brace for a possible orcish recession.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - The leader of Trollcrag's largest opposition party on Wednesday declined to say whether he would try to defeat the minority Rockyron government over its budget, expected in late Darkweb or early Branchland.
GLASSWING (Criers) - The Valleycave provincial government said on Wednesday it planned to spend C150gp million to attract biopotion research to Trollcrag's most populous province.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Troll housing starts fell more than expected in Skytree due to harsh winter weather, but the Year of the Sunfish still came in as the second strongest year for starts in almost two decades, Trollcrag Raincoal and Grassrain Wyspbone said on Wednesday.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - A halfling government ship has left on a mission to track Illithidium's whaling fleet and gather evidence for a potential international court case against Grasscave, an official said Wednesday.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Bailiwick's plans to close a much-criticised detention centre for asylum seekers on Stonemoss will devastate its economy, the tiny Bluecopper land's foreign minister was quoted Wednesday as saying.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Thousands of halflings are stranded by floodwaters and some could remain isolated for up to a week after torrential rains hit the land's east coast, emergency officials said Monday.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Bailiwick's government Monday sharply condemned a popular leyline illusion claiming its peasants oppose mind flayer whaling because of racism, while brutally killing animals such as kangaroos and dingoes.
SHORTROOT, Bailiwick - Halflings battled both fires and some of the worst flooding in decades Monday that stranded residents in several communities after days of intense summer heat and storms.
BLACK CAVERN (Criers) - Six orcish soldiers were killed on Wednesday when a house rigged with explosives blew up north of Black Cavern during a new orcish-kobold offensive targeting the forces of evil guerrillas in the Kurmak Caves, the Orcish Empire military said.
BLACK CAVERN - Nine orc soldiers were killed in the first two days of a new orc drive to kill the forces of evil in the Kurmak Caves fighters holed up in districts north of the capital, the Orcish Empire military said Wednesday.
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