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HEADLINES FROM AROUND NOUVELLE ALEXANDRIE

SHOCK POLL: 52% of New Alexandrians support "common sense gun regulations"

Poll by the IOP reflects changes in public mood since the Port Karsten University shooting

Mount Broadshaw in New Luthoria continues "low-grade eruption"
Reports of more violent shaking in the area seem to indicate larger eruption is possible, according to experts

Industrial profits and export-led growth jumped to 28% in 1702 Export-led manufacturing, consumer goods, and construction fueling national economic growth
Consumers ramp up spending, businesses step up investment, & jobless claims fall to new lows

1702 on track to be "record year" for New Alexandrian business
Statistics indicate high profits, better pay, more new businesses formed than ever before

NEWS BRIEFS FROM AROUND MICRAS

BENACIAN UNION: MTO is booted out of Chryse over Umraism in Benacia

Debate over expulsion of Umraism exacerbates international tensions

RANSENAR: MTO officials booted from Chryse arrive in Goldfield
Flights from Chryse increase as MTO is forced out of its headquarters

NOUVELLE ALEXANDRIE: Government mum as MTO is homeless and uprooted
Critics at home and abroad condemn silence on matter from FHP Government

HUMANITARIAN CRISIS BREWS IN ZEED AS THIRD EURAN WAR RAGES

EEU warns situation will "worsen dramatically"

NORVIND, ALD -- Nine years after the start of the Suren-Zeed Conflict, also known as the Third Euran War, the Euran Economic Union has warned that the situation in the country's southern region is set to worsen dramatically. Stocks of food, currency reserves, and fuel have rapidly depleted since the end of last year. Sources in Fontainebleau suggest that stockpiles of essential foodstuffs may already be exhausted as of the fourth month of this year.

The loss of Zeed's primary agricultural regions along the margins of the River Erik that marks its eastern boundary, combined with ongoing allied interdiction efforts targeting commercial and coastal shipping in Zeedic territorial waters, has forced the All-Union Revolutionary Front to issue next year's seed grain in order to supplement rations which had been heavily slashed throughout 1699 and now into the current year.

Reporting restrictions, instituted by domestic media at the request of the Department of Defense, prevent us from covering the military and political situation around the port of Avey. However it can be confirmed that, as a result of allied military action, it is no longer available to the All-Union Revolutionary Front or the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Zeed. Sources close to the Secretariat of the Euran Economic Union fear that no commercial bulk carrier has been able to successfully reach harbour in Rusjar's nearest alternative port since the first month of this year, and that it is inevitable that humanitarian aid will be required before the onset of winter in the southern hemisphere.

Fighting broke out during 1693 when Rashid Hasanzadeh, Zeed's dictatorial strongman, launched a surprise attack on the Suren Confederacy, seeking to take advantage of the distraction of the Raspur Pact by the Elwynnsese Civil War. The initial offensive, launched by proxy-militias organised by the revolutionary regime, scored initial successes but were turned back from the Surenid capital by allied air power and the timely arrival of Constancian stabilisation forces. A stalemate ensured, with Zeed relying upon the terrorist coalition known as Azard Eura for material support. Nouvelle Alexandrie meanwhile provided extensive logistical and technical support to its Constancian and Surenid allies. In spite of the coup which deposed Rashid Hasanzadeh, and a series of allied offensives throughout Eura, culminating in Operation Paramount of 1698 which neutralised the Azad Eura network, opportunities for a negotiated settlement were consistently missed. In the meantime thousands have died and more than two million people have been forced to flee their homes.

Since the conflict erupted the All-Union Revolutionary Front and the Raspur Pact have traded blame for deteriorating humanitarian situation, with each side accusing the other of obstructing or failing to organise the necessary steps to ensure vital shipments of food, fuel, and medicine reach vulnerable civilian communities. The failure to bring an end to the conflict, believed to be motivated by an ideological clique in Rusjar that believes it can outlast the spate of defections and foreign occupations which characterised the most recent three years of the war, has put between 400,000 and 1.7 million Zeedic citizens, mostly of the ethnic Ruthenian community in the revolutionary stronghold around Rusjar at risk of famine-like conditions.

The Trans-Euran Command of the Raspur Pact, the Department of Defense for Nouvelle Alexandrie, and the governments of Constancia, and Suren, have all refused to comment on operational matters, but those familiar with the thinking of the allied command structure suggest that the relative leniency and patience with which Zeed, the aggressor in this war who precipitated the crisis affecting its own citizens, cannot continue indefinitely.