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TOPSHOT - Olympic torch bearer Brazilian former volleyball player Maria Isabel Barroso Salgado (R) holds up the torch of Rio 2016 Olympic games with the City Mayor Eduardo Paes (L) and Archbishop of Rio de Janeiro Orani Tempesta in front of the statue of Christo the Redeemer atop Corcovado Hill in Rio de Janeiro on August 5, 2016. The carnival capital of Rio de Janeiro will host a glittering Olympics opening ceremony party, hoping to draw a line under a turbulent seven-year build-up dogged by recession, drugs scandals, crime and infrastructure stumbles. / AFP / YASUYOSHI CHIBA

Let the Games begin! Rio set for carnival - Archer sets record * Boxer held over sex attacks

By Kuwait Times

August 05, 2016 | 10:19 p.m EDT

KUWAIT: Director General of Kuwait’s Directorate General of the Coast Guard, Commodore Sheikh Mubarak Ali Al-Sabah, discussed Sunday with the visiting Iranian Border Guards Commander, Major General Ahmad Goudarzi, boosting commercial and fishing vessel search and rescue efforts and combating drug smuggling and maritime piracy. In a press statement, the Interior Ministry said that the meeting was held at the Sabah Al-Ahmad Coast Guard Base in Kuwait.

Commodore Sheikh Mubarak and Maj. Gen. Ahmad also mulled beefing up the security of maritime borders. Both sides underlined the importance of cementing security cooperation, mainly related to securing maritime borders, streamlining commercial maritime routes, and maintaining the security and stability of maritime navigation. — KUNA

August 05, 2016 10:19 PM

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