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In this Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2017 photo, Zaina Hammoush, 24 and 9 months pregnant, a Syrian refugee from Aleppo, stands with her daughter Razan, 6, while posing for a picture by the entrance of her shelter, at the refugee camp of Ritsona, Greece. "All we want is a safe place for my family to go to, just the basic of what a human needs, if it wasn't for my children we would had never left our home in Aleppo." Hammoush said. Squalid conditions and subfreezing temperatures in Greece’s migrant camps this winter are taking their toll on everyone living in them with expectant mothers and babies especially feel the brunt. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
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In this Friday, Dec. 30, 2016 photo, Maha Abdulqadir, age 30 and 3 months pregnant, a Syrian refugee from al-Hasaka, holds her daughter Zinnar, 5, while posing for a picture by the entrance of her shelter, during snowfall at the refugee camp of Ritsona, Greece. "We fled from war, nothing left for us in Syria, I miss my home everything was taken from us, now in Greece we are on hold without any knowledge of what is next.", Abdulqadir said. Squalid conditions and subfreezing temperatures in Greece’s migrant camps this winter are taking their toll on everyone living in them with expectant mothers and babies especially feel the brunt. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
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Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras gives a speech during an Economy conference, in Lagonisi southeast of Athens, on Thursday, June 22, 2016. Greece's left-led government wants to ease its budgetary saving commitments after its current multi-billion euro bailout ends in 2018, a senior official says.(AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
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A migrant man and a boy react as they are stuck between Macedonian riot police officers and migrants during a clash near the border train station of Idomeni, northern Greece, as they wait to be allowed by the Macedonian police to cross the border from Greece to Macedonia, Friday, Aug. 21, 2015. Macedonian special police forces fired stun grenades to disperse thousands of migrants stuck on a no-man's land with Greece, a day after Macedonia declared a state of emergency on its borders to deal with a massive influx of migrants heading north to Europe. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic, File)
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Syrian refugees wait near the border railway station of Idomeni, northern Greece, in order to be allowed by the Macedonian police to cross the border from Greece to Macedonia, Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2015. Greece has been overwhelmed this year by record numbers of migrants who have been arriving on a number of Greek islands. (AP Photo/Santi Palacios, File)
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illustration on continuing financial aid to Greece by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times
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Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras listens during a parliamentary session in Athens on Aug. 14, 2015. (Associated Press) **FILE**
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The Parthenon - Athens, Greece
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Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said on arrival at the summit in Brussels that he wanted "another honest compromise" to keep Europe united. (Associated Press)
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Greek Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos speaks with the International Monetary Fund's Christine Lagarde during a meeting of Eurogroup finance ministers in Brussels on Sunday. Greece had another chance to convince creditors that it could be trusted to enact wide-ranging economic reforms. (Associated Press)
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Greece's Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras delivers a speech during a parliament meeting in Athens, Saturday, June 11, 2015. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis) ** FILE **
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Greece's Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras leaves from Maximos Mansion to meet the Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos in Athens, Wednesday, July 8, 2015. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)
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Russian President Vladimir Putin called Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras Monday as the Greek debt crisis deepened. (Associated Press) ** FILE **
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bailout: Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras (left) hopes to work out a rescue deal with European leaders to save his country's economy.
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It's a Greece stain ... (Illustration by Michael Ramirez for Creators Syndicate)
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Anxious Greeks lined up at ATMs on Monday as they gradually began dispensing cash again on the first day of capital controls imposed in a dramatic twist in Greece's financial saga. Banks will remain shut until next Monday, and a daily limit of $67 has been placed on cash withdrawals from ATMs. (Associated Press)
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A demonstrator holds a sign during a protest against the European Central Bank over Greece's debt repayments, in Trafalgar Square, London, Monday June 29, 2015. Standard & Poor's rating agency has cut Greece's credit grade by one notch further into junk status amid the country's deteriorating financial situation. The agency says it now sees a 50-percent chance of Greece leaving the eurozone. (Daniel Leal-Olivas/PA via AP) UNITED KINGDOM OUT
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Greece's Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras speaks with visiting Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann in Athens, Greece, on Wednesday, June 17, 2015. (AP Photo/Yorgos Karahalis) ** FILE **
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Greece's Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras arrives for a meeting at the Education Ministry in Athens, Tuesday, June 2, 2015. Tsipras says Greece has submitted a proposal for an agreement with its creditors, as Athens seeks a deal that will to unlock desperately needed rescue money. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)
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West African migrants walk on train tracks on their way toward the border with Macedonia near the town of Evzonoi, Greece, in this Saturday, Feb. 28, 2015, file photo. (AP Photo/Dalton Bennett)
