3 October 2013 Last updated at 05:19 GMT
Mihaloliakos was detained in the early hours of this morning after appearing before magistrates in a six hour overnight testimony
The war in Syria and its wave of refugees is destabilizing and overwhelming Lebanon. Now there are fears the hundreds of thousands of newcomers will never want to leave, and the sectarian conflict will worsen.
But the deeply divided and ineffective government authorities inLebanon did nothing, he says -- and now it's too late: "We have all these problems," the general says, "criminals, prostitutes and beggars everywhere -- across the entire country!"
South Asia
Relief brings its own disasters
By Malini Shankar
DEHRADUN, India - In Uttarakhand, the small Indian state in the Himalayan foothills where flash floods killed at least a thousand people in June this year and uprooted thousands of families, the story is told of a child who went every day to a helipad, believing his father would return when, in fact, the father died in the floods.There are many such stories, Ray Kancharla of Save the Children told IPS.
Children are the most vulnerable when natural calamities strike. Children, women, the frail and infirm, and the elderly need special care and attention in disaster zones. Often they are unable to cope with the aftermath of a disaster, even if they have survived it, and might not be able to access search and rescue personnel, food aid, or relief material.
Health of oceans 'declining fast'
The health of the world’s oceans is deteriorating even faster than had previously been thought, a report says.
A review from the International Programme on the State of the Ocean (IPSO), warns that the oceans are facing multiple threats.
They are being heated by climate change, turned slowly less alkaline by absorbing CO2, and suffering from overfishing and pollution.
The report warns that dead zones formed by fertiliser run-off are a problem.
It says conditions are ripe for the sort of mass extinction event that has afflicted the oceans in the past.
Golden dawn leader Nikos Mihaloliakos jailed pending trial
Mihaloliakos was detained in the early hours of this morning after appearing before magistrates in a six hour overnight testimony
The leader of the extremist right-wing party Golden Dawn has been remanded in a Greek jail, pending trial on charges of running a criminal organisation, in an investigation triggered by the murder of an anti-racist rapper.
Nikos Mihaloliakos was detained in the early hours of this morning, after appearing before magistrates at an Athens court in an overnight testimony that lasted over six hours. Mr Mihaloliakos, who is a sitting member of Greek parliament, was among 20 people, including five of his party law makers, arrested over the weekend in a crackdown against the Nazi-inspired party following the fatal stabbing of rap singer Pavlos Fyssas on 18 September.
A man arrested at the scene of the attack identified himself as being a supporter of Golden Dawn. The party has vehemently denied any role in the murder.
The Wave from Syria: Flow of Refugees Destabilizes Lebanon
The war in Syria and its wave of refugees is destabilizing and overwhelming Lebanon. Now there are fears the hundreds of thousands of newcomers will never want to leave, and the sectarian conflict will worsen.
General Ibrahim Bachir saw it coming. He has been warning the government for over two years now: Stop wasting time and start building refugee camps to deal with the influx of Syrian refugees, he told them.
Bachir, 60, heads the High Relief Commission, the state agency charged with helping the masses of refugees fleeing the conflict in neighboringSyria. "But how is such a small country supposed to accommodate so many refugees?" he asks. "One in four people here is now a Syrian refugee."
On the trail of al-Shabab's Kenyan recruitment 'pipeline'
The BBC's Peter Taylor reports on the Kenyan recruitment network, which delivers would-be jihadists to be used on missions by al-Shabab in Somalia.
The armed siege at Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi has focused attention on the extremist group, al-Shabab. When the attack happened, the BBC's Panorama programme had been investigating the recruitment pipeline of young Muslims through Kenya to join the group in Somalia.
I meet Makaburi in a room not much bigger than a cupboard, in Mombasa, eastern Kenya.
It is not a place you would expect to meet a radical cleric who describes himself as Kenya's number one target in the country's fight to disrupt al-Shabab's recruitment network.
Presidential visit does little to quell religious strife in Myanmar
President Thein Sein, who has been criticized for not doing enough to stop violence between Buddhists and Muslims, is on his first visit to a tense region.
Terrified Muslim families hid in forests in western Myanmar on Wednesday, one day after fleeing a new round of deadly sectarian violence that erupted even as the president toured the divided region. The discovery of four bodies brought the death toll from the latest clashes up to at least five.
Tuesday's unrest near the coastal town of Thandwe, which saw Buddhist mobs kill a 94-year-old woman and four other Muslims and burn dozens of homes, underscored the government's persistent failure to stop the sectarian violence from spreading.
Rights groups say President Thein Sein, visiting the region for the first time since clashes flared there last year, has done little to crack down on religious intolerance and failed to bridge a divide that has left hundreds of thousands of Muslims marginalized and segregated, many of them confined by security forces in inadequately equipped camps for those who fled their homes.
South Asia
Oct 3, '13
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Relief brings its own disasters
By Malini Shankar
DEHRADUN, India - In Uttarakhand, the small Indian state in the Himalayan foothills where flash floods killed at least a thousand people in June this year and uprooted thousands of families, the story is told of a child who went every day to a helipad, believing his father would return when, in fact, the father died in the floods.There are many such stories, Ray Kancharla of Save the Children told IPS.
Children are the most vulnerable when natural calamities strike. Children, women, the frail and infirm, and the elderly need special care and attention in disaster zones. Often they are unable to cope with the aftermath of a disaster, even if they have survived it, and might not be able to access search and rescue personnel, food aid, or relief material.
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