Small drones, such as flying cameras, are already available worldwide, and non-military surveillance were recently introduced to track poachers in the remote Indian state of Assam.
Before he was unexpectedly chosen to succeed Olusegun Obasanjo, Mr Yar'Adua, a former chemistry teacher, was a little-known governor of the remote northern state of Katsina.
Our plan is to repeat the success of Ghana by drilling wells in the remote Eastern Equatoria State where the majority of the people suffering from this disease live.
The BBC has also received reports of civilians fleeing remote areas in Borno State and arriving in towns on the border with Cameroon.
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But it says there has been no word on the release of a magistrate who was kidnapped at the same time on Monday in a remote area of the state.
Local and federal regulators approved a giant solar power project in California this week, making it one of more than a dozen giant solar farms that have secured permits and are set to rise from fairly remote corners of the state.
At the end, geothermal energy companies want California regulators to assign higher values to the steady supply of power they could generate, speed up the permitting process, and promote more transmission line construction to transport geothermal energy from more remote corners of the state to towns and cities.
That fall, in the remote western corner of the state, John Snow, a retired Democratic judge who had represented the district in the State Senate for three terms, found himself subjected to one political attack after another.
The helicopter lands in a remote camp at Gardez, where State Department aid worker Rick Carbone says the road will bring economic development.
Born in the remote town of Paracatu in the state of Minas Gerais and the son of a builder, Mr Barbosa was educated in Brazil's much criticised state school system.
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Residents of a remote village in India's Rajasthan state are celebrating the return of a seven-year-old girl who had accidently strayed into Pakistan.
Another challenge is the state of the roads in this remote rural area.
Mining reached its apex in the 1890s when around 700 people lived at Corinna, but by 1919 the town was all but abandoned, leaving what Tasmania's Parks and Wildlife Service describes as " the only remote area historic mining settlement" in the state.
The state has had to build roads to remote migrant outposts in the jungle.
Snapshots of the user's acoustic patterns were sent to a remote server, where the user's emotional state would be calculated by a machine-learning system.
LIMA, Peru (AP) Peru's government declared an environmental state of emergency on Monday in a remote Amazon jungle region it says has been affected by years of contamination at the country's most productive oil fields, which are currently operated by Argentina-based Pluspetrol.
If remote sellers have found a temporary "hole" in state sales tax laws to escape the collection of sales taxes, it is simply the responsibility of legislators to plug it.
From the village of Vijay Pura in the Indian state of Rajasthan, the global financial crisis seems remote.
But the State Department warned that the region is large and remote and that security help might not be readily available.
If I purchase a book for the same price from a retailer and a remote seller, the remote seller's freight cost would be paid by my own state of Texas.
To someone living in the west of England, as I do, or in the north, Westminster and Whitehall are every bit as remote as Brussels, and one could argue strongly for a European state, with enhanced regional autonomy.
"We visit historic bridges and remote sandy islands, " he says, "stop at Bahia Honda State Park for lunch...then a three-mile paddle to the take-out at the historic Old Wooden Bridge fishing camp".
The key, say most players, is to come up with a moderate plan that takes the tax structure and simplifies it to the point that remote sellers can comply with interstate tax requirements while fulfilling the bottom lines of state and local governments.
That came in Dantewada, a remote, forested, dirt-poor and sparsely populated district in the south of Chhattisgarh state.
The state should no longer subsidise the private pursuit of Arcadia through expensive public services for remote and sparsely populated areas.
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State lawmakers have responded by trying to regulate a wide range of activities of the increasingly remote institutions operating within their borders.
The Secretary of State has not attached weight to the impairment of Senator Pinochet's capacity to remember remote events, save insofar its recent deterioration is symptomatic of brain damage having a wider significance: see sub-paragraph (6) below.
That prospect is now remote, and the fact that different religious groups live by different family laws, and are treated unequally by the state and society, has created incentives for expedient conversion.
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