The alert level indicated that the volcano exhibited heightened unrest and increased potential for eruption.
According to Indonesia's volcanology centre, Mount Agung, which has not erupted since 1963, is "exhibiting heightened unrest with increased likelihood of eruption".
Fearful that escalation could further unsettle its fragile ties with Egypt and heighten unrest elsewhere in the region, including Jordan, America's president, Barack Obama, has already warned Israel against a ground offensive.
But Libya's heightened unrest raises the spectre of the 2013 In Amenas hostage crisis – which saw Islamist extremists kidnap more than 800 hostages close to Algeria's Libyan border.
More than half the cities surveyed had seen a fall in living standards, due to "heightened unrest in the wake of the global economic crisis, which has undermined many of the developmental gains that cities may have experienced through public policy and investment".
No further relationships are provided between VUI 3 ("moderate unrest") and 4 ("heightened unrest") and higher VALs.
The unrest underscores the heightened political tensions that have taken hold since Trump took office in January.
Officially, Christians -- most of them belonging to Eastern-rite Churches -- number some 1.5 million or 5percentt of the total population, but a decade of war and heightened unrest in the wake of the departure of U.S. troops has caused many to flee the country.
Not dealing with this problem will only mean the NPLs could increase by another €50 billion in the next year (the official total NPL number is €113 billion, the actual number is probably closer to €135 billion), the unemployment will be higher, the economy will keep shrinking and the risk of civil unrest will be heightened.
An international consortium, "Friends of Pakistan," was assembled in September amid growing fears of debt default and heightened social unrest, but Islamabad was unable to wait for international decision making.
