His Justice and Development Party, or AKP, also made a number of overtures toward the Kurds, relaxing bans on Kurdish language education, appearing to apologize for past discriminatory policies and launching a state Kurdish-language TV station.
But including local ordinances as grounds for an immigration inquiry opens all kinds of tantalizing harassment possibilities for officials like Joe Arpaio--the notorious but popular Arizona sheriff who has made it his personal mission to root out undocumented aliens from the state by launching crime sweeps in Latino communities on the flimsiest of pretexts.
The Department of Education in Washington DC has said it is launching an investigation into whether Penn State failed to report incidents of sexual abuse on campus - a federal requirement.
After watching their financial sector collapse because of their exposure to the restructuring of the Greek banking system, Cyprus proposed the rescue package last year, but have been unable to negotiate a final deal, despite launching a round of spending and state salary cuts under the outgoing government.
Robert Serry, Special Coordinator for the Middle East peace process and Personal Representative of the Secretary-General, told the Security Council today that diplomatic efforts to reinvigorate the Middle East peace process had continued, and recent meetings -- including of the Quartet on Friday -- were part of a concentrated push to create the conditions for re-launching efforts for a two-State solution.
The latest blow came Wednesday, with New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo launching a Web site asking customers to complain about Dell's business practices.
With 1, 700 satellites being prepared for launching over the next decade, a state does not want to be left out of the multi-billion dollar market.
By blaming Israel for the state of the Middle East and launching personal barbs against Netanyahu, Obama seeks to drive down popular American support for Israel.
One such would-be magnate is Vipin Motwani, who has combined his MBA studies at Arizona State University in Phoenix with co-launching an Internet-based food enterprise.
Launching an antitrust probe of Intel, New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said Thursday his office has sent a subpoena to the Santa Clara, Calif.
The two, he added, had "a common interest in putting an end to the violence in the country and launching a peace settlement preserving Syria as an integral and sovereign state".
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"The Annapolis conference will show broad international support for the Israeli and Palestinian leaders' efforts and will be a launching point for negotiations leading to the establishment of a Palestinian state and the realization of Israeli-Palestinian peace, " said Karl Duckworth, a State Department spokesman.
Senator John Kerry, nominated to become the next secretary of state, is expected to resign in a few weeks, launching a special election for his seat.
When he was attending school at Michigan State University, he dabbled in the local online food ordering market by launching a website called eSparty.com.
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The launching ceremony of the GMR was held in Islamabad and attended by the Minister of State for Education, Ministry of Federal Education and Professional Trainings, Representative and Director UNESCO Islamabad, Director Programs Idara-e-Taleem-o-Aagahi, and other representatives and officials of the Government of Pakistan, civil society organizations, United Nations, academia and media.
But the atmosphere across the state remain volatile, witnesses say, with groups of Rakhine Buddhists and Muslims launching vigilante-style attacks against one another.
State media said Naw Kham and his subordinates had collaborated with Thai soldiers in launching an attack on the ships, the Hua Ping and Yu Xing.
Prior to launching City Hall Fellows, Bethany was a litigator at Quinn Emanuel, where she won an award from the California State Bar Association for pro bono representation of special education students.
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