Good Morning, Australia! – Greece enacts restrictions to limit financial chaos – LGBT pride is greeted with rubber bullets in Istanbul – Tama goes from Stray Cat to Goddess – And more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

Greece’s banks and stock exchange will stay closed on Monday morning, after people emptied several ATMs in an effort to get their money before Tuesday’s deadline on Greece’s bailout.  Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras also announced capital controls, to prevent capital from fleeing the country in electronic transfers and making the economic crisis he inherited even worse.  This comes after the European Central Bank refused to increase emergency funding to Greece.  Athens has until tomorrow to make a 1.6 Billion Euro payment to its IMF creditors, or possibly leave the Eurozone.

Police in Istanbul turned rubber bullets, tear gas, and water cannons on the annual LGBT Pride parade and rally, after organizers said they had been refused permission to march this year because of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.  It has taken place in Istanbul in the past, and is normally the biggest pride event in the Muslim world.  The crackdown is typical of the police state of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has turned his rabid cops on the mourning families of dead miners, democracy activists, environmentalists, and most of his opposition.

The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blew up two minutes, 19 seconds after launching from Cape Canaveral in Florida.  SpaceX Chief Executive Elon Musk tweeted the preliminary investigation showed a “There was an overpressure event in the upper stage liquid oxygen tank”.  The Falcon 9 had been carrying thousands of pounds of supplies for the three people aboard the International Space Station, raising questions about how the orbiting station will be restocked.  This is the first major failure of the Falcon program, which has had a charmed existence so far – a 95 percent success rate.

Taiwan authorities have updated the numbers from that horrific fire accident at a water park in Taipei.  They now say more than 500 people were injured, with some 200 suffering burns.  Hospitals have been busy performing skin grafts on the burned patients, and the president is banning the plastic colored powder that was sprayed over party goers at the water park only to catch fire and turn the place into an inferno.

Tunisians in the resort town of Sousse marched to denounce the terrorist attack on a beachfront hotel in which at least 38 people – most of them European and British tourists – were killed.  A companion march was held in the capital Tunis.  Friday’s attack was one of the worst in Tunisia’s history, even worse than the 22 March attack on the Bardo Museum, which killed 22 people.  Islamic State claimed responsibility for the beach attack in Tunisia, a North African secular Arab state that welcomes foreigners and where women live and work without religious persecution.

The “cat who saved a train station” has been promoted – to Goddess.  Stationmaster Tama was mourned in a Shinto funeral in Japan’s beautiful Wakayama prefecture on Sunday, where the priest deified the late 16-year old Calico Cat.  Tama was born a stray near Kishi Station in 1999; adopted by one of the station workers; and declared stationmaster by the railway in 2007, when executives recognized a fuzzy marketing bonanza right before their eyes.  Tama tourism brought more than A$11.5 Million to the local economy since then.  But it’s not over, because the Wakayama Electric Line just declared a new cat named Niitama as the Apprentice Stationmaster.