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France to share security intelligence with Brazil ahead of 2016 Olympics

The foreign affairs ministers of Brazil and France pledged to exchange information about potential security threats ahead of the 2016 Rio Olympics, Reuters reports. France’s foreign minister Laurent Fabius said in a press conference on Sunday that his country will gladly share any relevant counterterriorism intelligence with the Olympic hosts.

In the wake of the Nov. 13 attacks in Paris that killed 130 people, Fabius said French intelligence officials believe terrorism must be fought not just nationally but globally. Fabius was visiting Brazil in preparation for next week’s United Nation’s Climate Conference and also met with Brazil’s president, Dilma Rousseff.