Good Morning, Australia! – Greece misses the big deadline – While you were asleep, police ended the Melbourne prison riot – An Aussie nettling Islamic State is killed – And more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

Eurozone finance minister rejected Greece’s call to extend its bailout past the 30 June deadline, and Greece isn’t making its 1.6 Billion Euro payment to the International Monetary fund.  That means that as of 22:00 GMT, Greece became the first developed country to miss a payment to the IMF.  A last minute deal between Greece and its European creditors isn’t anywhere in sight.  But at the same time, the Eurozone wants to prevent Greece from leaving and Greece doesn’t want to go.  So, stalemate.

Overnight, heavily armed cops moved in and put down the riot at Melbourne’s Metropolitan Remand Centre, which was apparently sparked by the smoking ban that goes into effect today.  So, now the inmates are still in jail, on lockdown, and still can’t smoke.  In fact, all of the state’s prisons are on lockdown, just as a precaution.  Corrections Victoria told the Herald Sun that “several inmates” were hurt, as were two staff members – although not directly because of the rioting inmates.

Around 1,200 prisoners escaped from prison in Yemen, including dozens of suspected Al Qaeda terrorists.  The official state news agency Saba reports that Al Qaeda “attacked the central prison in the city of Taiz and more than 1,200 of the dangerous prisoners escaped”.  If so, the militants bypassed the Houthi militias who control the city and went straight for the prison to free their pals – a tactic used several times in Iraq, Syria, and North Africa.

A Gold Coast man who was fighting in Syria on the side of Kurdish forces was reportedly killed.  Disgusted by the reports of Islamic State atrocities, 23-year old Reece Harding left Australia in May and joined the Lions of Rojava – the name given to foreigners who join the Kurdish YPG, the fighting force that has proven to be most effective in chasing the Islamic State terrorists away from Kurdish populations in the north.  “With all the information that’s spread about on the internet with people beheading people, killing children, raping and beating women, I think it really did get to him in the end,” Reece’s father Keith Harding told the ABC,  “He felt that he wanted to do the right thing and try and stop it in his small way that he could.  I’m sure that’s the driving force of him going to do this.” 

Well more than 110 people are feared dad in that crash of an Indonesian military C-130B Hercules transport plane into a neighborhood in Medan city in northern Sumatra.  Witnesses say smoke came from the aging plane as it flew too low after take off before crashing and destroying dozens of buildings.  The plane had 113 people on board, according to Indonesian officials, including a dozen crewmembers and their families.  Indonesia’s police and military have had ten aircraft crashes over the past decade.

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff visited US President Barack Obama at the White House.  That thaws frosty relations caused by revelations that the US spied on Rousseff and other Brazilian officials – made public in October 2013 via the documents that fugitive whistleblower Edward Snowden made public.  Obama greeted Rousseff with a warm hug when she arrived in Washington, and Dilma acknowledged that “things have changed”.  The presidents agreed to a series of steps to make it easier for people and goods to move between the two countries.