Europe's nation-states are being challenged from above, by the growing powers of the supranational European Union, but also from below, by increasingly assertive regions.
The Department of Justice -- and 20 U.S. states -- decided to formally bring antitrust charges against Microsoft in May, starting a process that may drag through the courts for years.
The investigation will examine payments made by people from outside the European Economic Area (EEA) - the EU's 27-member states as well as Norway, Liechtenstein and Iceland - who use their credit and debit cards when inside the area.
New York and New Jersey -- two of the Nation's most populous States -- were especially hard hit by these storms.
But these countries have, and will continue to have, far lower emissions on a per-capita basis, given that China's are now around one-fifth those of the United States and India's one-twentieth.
You mentioned earlier, the biggest thing that's on everybody's minds -- whether it's the United States, Canada, Brazil, Colombia, Jamaica -- is, can I find a job that allows me to support my family and allows my children to advance and feel secure.
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Guernsey's States-owned airline Aurigny has announced it intends to replace its fleet of Trislander aircraft.
Mr Tribe says he has agreed with some of the court's earlier states-rights rulings.
Only four U.S. states -- California, Michigan, Louisiana and Rhode Island -- ban any type of cloning research, both publicly and privately funded.
New York is one of the nation's highest-taxed states and the plan would serve as a way to create jobs in a long-stagnant upstate economy.
This could be accelerated by mandating that federal contractors report on risk mitigation steps taken with regard to any ties to U.S.-sanctioned states in the course of their application process.
Past Nigerian governments allowed the country's oil-producing states to keep only a tiny share of the cash they generated, but the current president, Olusegun Obasanjo, has promised to make amends.
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One of Gowda's first actions as PM was to offer an olive branch to India's insurgency-torn northeastern states, which symbolize another of the nation's many festering divides.
Dan Fodio, an ethnic Fulani Islamic scholar, rose up against the Hausa rulers of what is now northern Nigeria and Niger and created an empire which stretched from modern-day Burkina Faso to Cameroon, becoming one of Africa's largest pre-colonial states.
So again, today is a celebration of the great ties between the world's two largest democracies -- that's the United States and that's India.
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Brazil's main oil-producing states had threatened legal action over the measure.
In the late 1990s the pair cofounded Shree Renuka Sugars in Belgaum, a trading hub near the border of Karnataka and Maharashtra, the country's top sugarcane-producing states.
The work is being carried out entirely by volunteers - rather than under Mr De Jersey's auspices as a States employee - meaning the cost so far has amounted to only "tens of pounds".
Tough negotiations are under way on the EU's 2014-2020 budget, with some member states arguing that the Commission's funding targets are too ambitious in the current climate of national belt-tightening.
Meanwhile, Moody's Investor Service said that the United States government's AAA-rating is safe, but warned that it could be at risk if policymakers don't reign in its massive public debt.
Senior military men now have the top police jobs in two-thirds of Mexico's states, and are playing a central role in the anti-drugs war.
And the international community -- notably the United States's key European allies and the Russians -- will continue to block any consensus on coordinated military responses.
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Perhaps daunted by all the options offered--all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia offer plans with varying investment choices and fees--75% of parents and grandparents opening new accounts are buying into broker-sold, high-cost plans, rather than investing in the lower-cost plans available directly from such operators as TIAA-CREF , Vanguard and Fidelity .
It's not like the States - Chicago airport has nothing around it for 300 miles (482km).
But his radical plan, which involves transforming Italy's regions almost into mini-states, has provoked stinging reactions.
Now that six U.S. states permit same-sex marriage, researchers have been able to conduct studies with those couples.
And while 14 countries and 12 U.S. states allow same-sex marriages, in South Korea that appears to be a distant dream for gay couples.
These two programs, located in two of the sport's heart-and-soul states, have seven combined national titles but just two Sweet 16 appearances in the last decade.
The new primary schedule will compress the nomination process into about four weeks, with more than half America's states and three-quarters of its population voting in a feverish eight-day spell in March.
Industrial production in most countries is going down faster than in the United States--and it's been going down very fast in the United States in recent months, down 10% or more.
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