Hello, Australia! – Hundreds are treated for burns after an explosion in Taiwan – Greek bailout talks have broken down – The Kurds beats back Islamic State, while Turkey makes a startling announcement about IS – CNN’s red alert over.. sex toys? – And more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

Warning, there are incredibly disturbing images in the video links:  Hundreds of people have been burned or otherwise injured at an explosion at a water park in Taipei, Taiwan last night.  About 1,000 people were watching a performance at Formosa Water Park in New Taipei City’s Bali district.  A colored powder was being sprayed over the audience ignited as part of a performance – but it ignited, spreading flames everywhere.  (Here comes the wildest videoà) Amateur video shows the silhouettes of people dressed only in swim gear running through the flames, trying to reach safety.  Officials say 215 were hurt, with 83 suffering serious burns.

Greece’s European creditors are rejecting PM Alexis Tsipras’ call for a one-month extension of the bailout so that Greece can hold a snap referendum on how to proceed with the bailout program. The Leftist Syriza government wants a referendum on 5 July, to ask the people if they even want to continue dealing with the IMF – after the Fund rejected Athens’ compromise plan to increase revenue by raising taxes on the wealthy and corporations.  Greece’s European creditors for some reason want Athens to slash money out of pensions instead.

Greece has until Tuesday to pay 1.6 Billion Euros to the IMF, and negotiations have broken off.  Without new funds, there are fears Greece will leave the Euro.  As the deadline looms, many Greeks have run on the banks, withdrawing as much cash as they can – and there are fears for Monday morning. 

Tired of waiting for an insult to be dealt with by conservative state officials, US activist Bree Newsome shimmied up the ten-meter flag poll at the state capital of South Carolina, and tore down the confederate flag herself.  Newsome and her spotter James Ian Dyson were arrested and charged with misdemeanor trespass offenses.  The act was largely symbolic, and stubborn official had the garish banner of racism and treason against the US back up within an hour.    South Carolina lawmakers aren’t expected to consider legislation to remove the flag for another week.

Tourists are streaming out of Tunisia and the country’s security forces are clamping down on security after Friday’s massacre on the beach at the resort town of Sousse.  Islamic State claims responsibility for the gunman, dressed as a tourist, who shot and killed 38 people – mostly visitors from England, Germany, and other Europeans.  Tunisia was the only country to successfully emerge from the Arab Spring as a more democratic, more socially liberal republic.  But last week’s bloodbath was the second terrorist attack since March, when IS-inspired gunmen murdered 22 people – mainly foreigners – and Tunis’ Bardo Museum.

Kurdish YPG forces drove Islamic State militants from Kobani for a second time.  More than 200 bodies have been recovered from IS’s assault on Thursday, and most of them had been shot to death.  Women and children were among the dead.  “Kurdish forces are now combing the town looking for fighters who may have gone into hiding,” said a YPG spokesman who added that at least eight IS fighters were seen running north towards the Turkish border. 

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is blasting the Kurds again – this is despite the YPG’s success in keeping Islamic State out of Kobani, taking an important border post, and capturing a base within striking distance of the Islamists’ de facto capital of Raqqa.  At a banquet on Friday night, Erdogan announced, “I say to the international community that whatever price must be paid, we will never allow the establishment of a new state on our southern frontier in the north of Syria.”  And then, without being asked, he denied having any links with Islamic State.

A judge in Argentina ordered the seizure of assets of five oil companies drilling in the Falkland Islands, which Argentina claims and refers to as “Las Malvinas”.  None of the oil companies are based in Argentina, and it seems highly unlikely the order will be implemented.  Buenos Aires objected when Britain authorized oil exploration in and around the disputed islands in 2010.

CNN went into “This Just In” mode when one of its reporters in London took a walk to a LGBT pride celebration, and saw a flag that looked suspiciously like banner of Islamic State.  They apparently didn’t examine the banner too closely before airing and discussing the imagery.  As it was aired around the world, viewers began noticing that the “writing” wasn’t in Arabic at all – rather, it was inscribed with the silhouettes of sex toys.  All kinds of sex toys, and it was pretty unmistakable.  Unless you work for CNN.