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Pressure mounted for a solution to be found to end a sit-in at the administrative headquarters of Athens University as the occupation entered its 16th day Tuesday.

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Tuesday will chair an interministerial meeting on the issue of increased migration flows, according to an official announcement.

Scrawled on the homes of the village of Megali Panagia in northern Greece are slogans emblematic of the deep rift caused in this society by a controversial Canadian gold mining project.

"Goldmines are a curse for every nation," reads one -- others are more profane.

A mini-reshuffle of the cabinet is on the cards, a government official has indicated following a decision by authorities to revoke plans to put the Alternate Citizens? Protection Ministry under the auspices of the Justice Ministry.

The relevant minister in charge of public safety on Wednesday again commented on the decades-old scourge of hooliganism in the form of "anarchist-inspired" violence that erupts periodically in central Athens.

Public Order Minister Yiannis Panousis not only hasn't back down from his high-profile "open letter" last week, where he decried what he called a "Left of Nothing", but on Monday asked "what do you call a Left that takes up firebombs and heads for war?"

Alternate Minister for Citizens? Protection Yiannis Panousis warned on Monday that protests regarding the Skouries gold mine in northern Greece could lead to someone being killed.

?We?re going to see deaths in Skouries,? said Panousis during a press conference on Monday to unveil a memorandum of understanding with Attica Regional Authority.

The Radical Left Coalition government of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras decided to proceed in the first large defense deal in 10 years. The sudden move came when the modernization of five old navy jets was commissioned to United States company LockheedMartin. The agreement's price tag is at an estimated 500 mln dollars.

Alternate Minister for Citizens? Protection Yiannis Panousis and the government on Friday played down the possibility of a rift over the former?s public expression of concern about the way the coalition is failing to deal with a wave of protests by anti-establishment groups.

Alternate Citizens' Protection Minister Yiannis Panousis are his own and do not represent those of the government insisted on Friday that the views expressed in a statement from his office and an article in Ta Nea regarding sitins at university faculties and public buildings "are in support of the Prime Minister and the government and its work."