Overnight, the border guards, once arrogant and nasty, had become friendly and courteous.
General Andrei Nikolaev, the border guards' head, could be won over by asking him to be chief of the new-look general staff.
Suspicion and tension are written on the faces of the border guards.
"We have more resources now, there is a helicopter for the border guards and more commitment from the interior ministry, the military and the Cuban people too, " Lt-Col Cisneros explains.
Some 500 members who take their hives across the border in early summer to Kyrgyzstan's cooler mountains had been learning the letter of the law to counter the border guards' demands for bribes.
The Bangladesh border guards said they had sent back more than 1, 000 Rohingya Muslims in the past several days.
Yevgeny Nazdratenko, governor of Primorsky Krai, now speaks publicly of the need to bring the Russian border guards into line.
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An Israeli general, sent discreetly to Cairo, proposed a joint Israeli-Egyptian inquiry into the deaths of the Egyptian border guards.
He's executive director of the self-appointed border guards, the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps.
Teams from the army, the fire service and border guards are still working around the clock at the site to find survivors, using heavy lifting gear, tools and their bare hands.
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Among other things, it calls for U.S. intelligence and law enforcement agencies to share information and boosts the number of border guards and customs inspectors.
He adds that teams from the army, the fire service and border guards had been drilling holes through concrete walls and pushing through oxygen cylinders and water bottles in an attempt to keep those trapped alive until they could be freed.
On Tuesday, Albania reported Serb troops crossed its border and seized the town of Kamenica after firing at border guards and setting fire to homes.
In scuffles at the Chaman crossing on Sunday, Pakistani border guards fired shots at hundreds of Afghans demanding to enter the country.
Virtual border guards are also being tested, with the US Customs and Border Protection trialling a kiosk at Dennis DeConcini Port in Nogales, Arizona, a border crossing between the US and Mexico.
At another border front, 21 Filipino peacekeepers detained by Syrian rebels near the Golan Heights for three days were released Saturday to Jordanian border guards, ending a chaotic episode that has raised concerns over the sustainability of the United Nations observer force along the Golan Heights amid Syria's conflict.
The BBC's Mark Dummett in Delhi says the government in Dhaka has always complained about the treatment of its citizens by Indian border guards.
Shafiqur Rahman, a deputy commanding officer of the Bangladesh Border Guard in Teknaf, said his guards detained at least 110 people from Myanmar on Wednesday.
Meghalaya Chief Minister Mukul Sangma and Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi have both appealed for peace and hundreds of armed policemen and border guards have been sent to the area.
Five Saudi border guards had recently been killed along the border in shoot-outs with well-armed smugglers, he added.
Kenya Police spokesman Eric Kiraithe said it was likely resorts close to the border were seen as "soft targets" -- despite the presence of police and security guards -- an attractive proposition given the clampdown on 'traditional' pirate attacks.
The meandering lakeside trails were turned into a corridor for border guards and their dogs.
They claimed Iranian border guards shot at them as they crossed the frontier.
Egyptian authorities said the guards who were manning the Palestinian side of the border had abandoned their posts.
The bill calls for miles of fences, thousands of new border guards, a secure identity card for immigrants and a new obligation for employers to verify that anyone they hire is legally entitled to work.
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Formanek had been in Berlin off and on about a month, going back and forth between East and West, sneaking past grim-faced border guards, covering demonstrations in East Berlin and then going back to the West to send the television stories.
The biggest Russian forces outside the regular army are the interior-ministry troops, numbering about 250, 000, and about 200, 000 border guards.
Two border guards were waiting as soon as he stepped on Canadian soil to ensure he had the correct paperwork.
Thousands cheer rival guards in silly hats who strut with mock aggression, lower their flags and slam shut the border gates.
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