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Friday, December 30, 2016

AP PHOTOS: Amid poverty surge, bus helps Greece's homeless

[In this photo taken on Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2016, a homeless person asks for information a social worker at the shower bus run by the Greek Praksis Non Governmental Organization at Koumoundourou square in central Athens. Poverty rates have surged here since the start of the crisis in late 2009, with nearly 36 percent of the country living in financial distress, according to European Unions statistics agency, Eurostat. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)]ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Outside the headquarters of Greece's governing political party is a moving snapshot of what a seven-year financial crisis can do to a country: A central Athens square where refugees rest, police chase petty criminals, and the homeless wait for meals handed out by charities.


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