The territory of Somaliland declared independence last central government collapsed, but has yet to be recognized as its own state by the international community.

VOA: standard.2009.09.07

He says the current U.S.strategy of pushing for a two-state solution is not winning support from Israelis who want to see a partition but are worried about Israel's security with Palestinians running their own state next door.

VOA: standard.2009.10.31

Washington,D.C. is the country's capital but it is a city,not a state, so it does not have its own star.

VOA: special.2010.04.02

One reason for the speech was the state of Arizona's recent passage of its own law against illegal immigration.

VOA: special.2010.07.03

Andrew worked hard. He opened his own tailoring business in the eastern part of the state of Tennessee.

VOA: special.2010.01.21

"Some of our projects have looked at what we call situational impairments, which are challenges to accessibility that are caused more by the situation or context that the computer user is in instead of maybe as we usually think of accessibility as having to do with someone's own physical or cognitive state."

VOA: special.2011.04.18

Republican billionaire Meg Whitman, who once headed the Internet company eBay, has spent more than $70 million of her own money in the race for governor, battling the state's insurance commissioner,Steve Poizner.

VOA: standard.2010.06.08

This bill doesn't take sides. What it says is that it is inappropriate to have a federal rule that says state governments with their own money can't make these decisions or that individual investors can't press their companies to do it,"

VOA: standard.2009.04.28