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Sunday, June 17, 2012

Small nation, big vote: Greece holds key ballot

An EU and a Greek flag fly in front of ancient Parthenon temple, in Athens, Sunday, June 17, 2012 as Greeks vote in the most crucial elections in decades. Greece voted Sunday amid global fears that victory by parties that have vowed to cancel the country's international bailout agreements and accompanying austerity measures could undermine the European Union's joint currency and pitch the world's major economies into another sharp downturn. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)Greeks returned to the ballot box Sunday for an election that punched far above its weight — a vote that could propel Greece out of the eurozone and unleash an economic tsunami at home, in Europe and around the world.



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