France, writes Nicolas Demorand in the centre-left Liberation , has stopped Mali becoming a "rogue state".
The U.S. wants similar protection against an accidental, unauthorized or rogue state launch, and against missile blackmail.
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What is worst is that Obama's advisers openly admit that they have no idea why Syria remains a rogue state despite their happy talk.
The Administration has been trying to lull Congress and the American people with assertions that we would have a five-to-ten-year warning period if a rogue state decided to develop these capabilities.
Even if the Sudan Peace Act were to be adopted unchanged by the Senate, however, they could still do business in every rogue state on the planet except for Sudan, although informed investors may not respond to such offerings once it is clear that the ultimate beneficiaries of the dollars thus generated could include countries like Iran, Iraq and Libya.
That's also because Hague understands America's need for a missile defense against rogue-state blackmail.
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Zimbabwe also highlights the problem of how to deal with a country which is regarded as a rogue or failing state.
The lesson from Mandiant is that we must all come together and collectively fight cybercrime, irrespective of whether the criminal is a rogue hacker or a nation state.
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Libya's state news agency reported on Sunday that the army had peacefully evicted one militia from an army building near Tripoli's airport hours after issuing a 48-hour ultimatum for rogue militias to give up state and military premises and turn over weapons.
But even with her personal intervention, Rice left for Europe without a key piece of the U.S. plan to put missiles on the continent to protect against "rogue states" such as Iran, State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said.
For a decade, Google and the other search engines declined to use a verification program created in 1999 by a group representing U.S. state pharmacy regulators to weed-out rogue online drug sellers.
Two leading national newspapers made the accusation over Straw's interpretation of Bush's State of the Union address in which he warned of the danger posed by so-called rogue states.
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