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Greece's Dimitris Salpigidis, left front, celebrates after scoring the equalizer during the Euro 2012 championship Group A match between Poland and Greece in Warsaw, Poland, on Friday, June 8, 2012. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS Uncertainty about Greece's future in the eurozone has hammered markets ahead of June 17 general elections in the crisis-hit country. The Greek share index touched new 22-year lows on Friday, dipping below 500 points.

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Evangelos Venizelos (center), leader of Greece's socialist PASOK party, leaves the Presidential Palace in Athens after a meeting with President Karolos Papoulias on Monday, May 14, 2012. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris )

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Evangelos Venizelos, leader of Greece's socialist PASOK party, arrives for a meeting with the country's president and other party leaders at the Presidential Palace in Athens on Tuesday, May 15, 2012. (AP Photo/Aris Messinis, Pool)

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Greek President Karolos Papoulias (center), socialist leader Evangelos Venizelos (first left) conservative leader Antonis Samaras (second left) and leftist leader Alexis Tsipras (right), meet Sunday in Athens. They failed make a deal for a coalition government. A Monday meeting is in doubt because Mr. Tsipras balked at the proposal. (Associated Press)

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Greek President Karolos Papoulias (center), socialist leader Evangelos Venizelos (left), conservative leader Antonis Samaras (second from left) and leftist leader Alexis Tsipras (right) meet on Sunday, May 13, 2012, in Athens. (Associated Press)

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Greek Socialist leader Evangelos Venizelos, left, meets with Greek President Karolos Papoulias in Athens, Saturday, May 12, 2012. (AP Photo/Aris Messinis, Pool)

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Greek swimming champion Spyros Gianniotis (left), the first torchbearer of the Olympic torch relay, carries the flame to the tomb of Pierre de Coubertin, the father of the modern Olympic Games, on Thursday, May 10, 2012, in Ancient Olympia, Greece. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

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Greek President Karolos Papoulias (right) meets with Antonis Samaras, leader of the conservative New Democracy party, in Athens on Monday, May 7, 2012, to formally give Mr. Samaras the mandate to form a coalition government. (AP Photo/Aris Messinis, Pool)

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Greek Prime Minister Lucas Papademos leaves a voting booth to cast his ballot at at a voting center in Athens on Sunday, May 6, 2012. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

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** FILE ** A small boat passes in front of the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier Enterprise, anchored off the coast of Faliro, Greece, near Athens, on Thursday, March 29, 2012. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris, File)

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Greece's Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos speaks March 10, 2012, during a conference of the PASOK socialist party at Faliro, near Athens. (Associated Press)

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Greece's Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos (center), surrounded by his personal security, arrives March 9, 2012, for a news conference in Athens. (Associated Press)