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Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek has caused controversy in Greece by suggesting that he would send anyone who does not support SYRIZA to a “gulag”.

Parliamentary speaker Evangelos Meimarakis has spoken to the representatives of all parties to remind them that no MPs should carry guns in the House, it emerged on Monday.

Secondary school teachers’ federation OLME on Monday demanded that the government revokes a civil mobilization order issued in response to plans for a strike during this month’s university entrance exams.

Doctors at public hospitals in Athens and Piraeus are expected to walk off the job from 9 a.m. to noon on Tuesday in protest at an appeal by the management of Evangelismos Hospital against compensation claims by specialized doctors at the Polykliniki clinic, whose back-pay demands have already been settled by a court.

The fruit distributed at Greece’s state schools is undergoing a series of emergency quality control inspections, according to a statement on Monday by Agricultural Development Minister Athanasios Tsaftaris.

A Thessaloniki court on Monday handed guilty verdicts to 21 of 24 defendants charged with participating in a usury ring that was one of three exposed during a police crackdown on loan sharks in northern Greece in January 2012.

A staggering 104.8 percent more women committed suicide in 2011 compared with the previous year, while the overall rate of people taking their own lives grew by 26.5 percent (from 377 to 477) in the same period, according to the Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT) and non-governmental organization Klimaka.

A contentious anti-racism bill appeared to be causing an ever-widening rift within the fragile coalition government on Monday, as the two junior partners, PASOK and Democratic Left, pushed for it to be submitted to Parliament without delay, conservative New Democracy insisted on key changes being made, while Justice Minister Antonis Roupakiotis appeared set to resign if his bill is watered down.

Prime Minister Antonis Samaras was expected to meet with Greek President Karolos Papoulias on Tuesday in order to inform him of his recent visits to China and Azerbaijan.

The election of extreme right Golden Dawn members to Greece's Parliament led to an increased expression of anti-Semitism in Greece in 2012, according to the annual US State Department's report on international religious freedom released on May 20.

A large fire that broke out in the hotel Astir in the western port of Patra on Tuesday was brought under control by a unit of 30 firefighters manning 10 fire engines.

A 34-year-old man charged with setting fire to a store in central Athens last week has told police that he is part of a citizens’ patrol operating in downtown Kypseli and Aghios Panteleimonas, Kathimerini understands.

Prime Minister Antonis Samaras vowed to return to Azerbaijan after holding talks in Baku on Sunday with the country’s president Ilham Aliyev.

The Dutchman accused of stabbing a 12-year-old Russian boy during his vacation in Crete last week is to face a magistrate on Monday.

The Supreme Court named two judicial officials on Monday to replace outgoing financial prosecutors Spyros Mouzakitis and Grigoris Peponis.

Former TV presenter Terence Quick has resigned as parliamentary spokesman for the Independent Greeks.

The Financial Police, set up in July 2011, has handled more than 5,000 cases until now, Public Order Minister Nikos Dendias told Parliament on Monday.

People have been evacuated from Vouliagmeni beach in southern Athens after a bather discovered a missile.

After increasing the working hours of secondary school teachers in order to cut down on the bill for substitutes, the Education Ministry is planning to make university educators spend as much as 50 percent more time teaching in a bid to make up for sliding staff numbers, Kathimerini understands.

Two people are in intensive care and another 11 are being treated for minor injuries after an explosion in a taverna on the island of Salamina, off the coast of Piraeus, on Sunday morning.

A bomb went of on the street where the Greek embassy in Tripoli, Libya, is located but the building was not damaged and there were no injuries, the Foreign Ministry said on Saturday.