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Greeks overwhelmingly voted “No” on a national referendum on whether to accept the terms of austerity from the country’s European creditors.  The early numbers appear to show a 60-40 split, with the majority going to the Syriza government’s view that the bailout terms are humiliating to the Greek people.  Some European creditors said that a “no” would be seen as a rejection of further talks – but of course that is not how the referendum was phrased. 

The results already ended one career.  The Greek conservative opposition leader and former Prime Minister Antonis Samaras announced he is stepping down from the New Democracy party, after the overwhelming vote against accepting European demands to raise taxes on lower income people and slash pensions to pay for the banks’ bailout. 

The Syriza government, now backed by a larger majority than that which elected it, says it will approach new negotiations with a strengthened hand.  The finance ministers of Belgium and Italy say new talks to reach an agreement on how Greece will pay back its debt should begin immediately.  But the leaders of France and Germany won’t meet until Monday reaches Europe.

Pope Francis has arrived in Ecuador for a seven-day visit to South America.  He’ll address poverty in his home continent, and travel to Bolivia and Paraguay as well.  But Francis will not go to Argentina or Brazil, preferring to focus attention on South America’s “peripheries”.

The US-led coalition hit Islamic State’s de facto capital with 16 airstrikes that officials say destroyed several buildings and vital transportation routes.  It further restricts IS’s movements after Kurdish YPG forces seized a border village and cut-off the militants’ ability to sell oil on the black market.  An anti-IS group claims one of the strikes killed several civilians, including a ten-year old boy. 

Boko Haram is blamed for a car bomb attack in Zabarmari, Nigeria that killed more than five people in a church – but raising the death toll to more than 200 after a week of violence.  Despite losing a lot of ground since Nigeria’s neighbors Chad, Niger, and Cameroon got into the fight, Boko Haram has consistently demonstrated it is able to lash out in suicide and hit and run attacks.

A US man died instantly after strapping mortar tube to his head and setting it off to celebrate America’s Independence Day.  22-year old Devon Stables of Calais, Maine in the far northeast had been drinking with friends.  Maine repealed its 1949 prohibition on fireworks in 2011; several injuries have followed on every 4th of July, and Stables is apparently the first death related to misuse of unregulated fireworks.

A pair of Lion Cubs kept as pets by a family in Gaza’s Rafah refugee camp have arrived safely at a wildlife refuge in Jordan.  Max and Mona initially ran into a problem getting out of Gaza because of strict border controls Israel put in after last year’s Gaza War with Hamas.  A British wildlife charity arranged the transfer.