Greeks fly home to vote in knife-edge referendum

Greeks fly home to vote in knife-edge referendum
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Summary Greeks living abroad have flown home to cast their votes.

ATHENS - With the stakes so high for Greece in Sunday s knife-edge referendum, some Greeks living abroad have flown home to cast their votes in hopes of tipping the outcome one way or the other.

On Saturday at Athens airport, among the streams of tourists heading for Greek island vacations, there were a few expatriated Greeks who had come back for the ballot.

"I came just to vote," Kostas Kokkinos, a 60-year-old Greek living on the EU island nation of Cyprus, told AFP as rela ..