Hello, Australia! – Well, Yanis has gone and done it now – A new WikiLeaks report seems to refute US claims to not-spying on its friends – Criminal charges against the owner of a capsized ferry – And more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

Greek Finance Minister and former Sydneysider Yanis Varoufakis accused Greece’s European creditors of “terrorism” and trying to “instill fear in people” prior to Sunday’s referendum on Greece’s debt.  Yanis says the troika wants Greeks to be too frightened to stand up to the troika that is demanding that Athens slash pensions to raise revenue instead of raising taxes on the rich and corporations.  Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and the Leftist Syriza government are urging voters to say “No” to that plan, and strengthen Athens’ hand in future negotiations.

There are new allegations that the US National Security Agency (NSA) is still routinely spying on Brazilian officials.  Wikileaks published a list of 29 telephone numbers on which the NSA allegedly eavesdropped – numbers of bankers and government officials.  “Our publication today shows the US has a long way to go to prove its dragnet surveillance on ‘friendly’ governments is over,” said WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in a statement.  This comes days after Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff finally made a long-delayed visit to Washington, DC – put off for two years because of similar revelations from the Snowden Documents.  The US insisted the surveillance was over.

Islamic State terrorists lined up 25 prisoners inside the ancient amphitheater in Palmyra, Syria, and executed the men on video.  It showed the executioners to be teen boys as young as 13-years old.  IS has also destroyed several artifacts from the site.

Tunisia declared a state of emergency more than a week after the terrorist attack that killed 38 people.  The declaration gives security forces more powers to clamp down on terrorists and limit public demonstrations.  An Islamic State-trained gunman slaughtered British and other tourists at a beach resort in the town of Sousse.  The attack ended when police shot and killed the gunman, and eight of his associates have been arrested.

Authorities in the Philippines failed murder charges against the owner of a ferry that capsized off of Leyte, killing at least 56 people.  The Captain and 17 others are also charged.  Owner Joge Bong Zarco denies allegations the Kim Nirvana was overloaded when it toppled over with 173 people on board in Thursday.

Some one thousand far-right-wingers marched in Kiev, demanding that Ukraine pull out of Minsk ceasefire accord; and accusing Russia and the Moscow-backed rebels of failing to abide by it.  Despite the ceasefire, fighting still sporadically breaks out in eastern Ukraine.  The march was called by the neonazi Pravy Sektor group that played a large role in the street demonstrations that overthrew the previous Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych in February 2014.

Former Cuban president Fidel Castro has made his first public appearance since December’s historic announcement that Cuba and the US would reestablish diplomatic relations.  The official newspaper of the Cuban Communist Party Granma showed photos of Fidel at a meeting of cheesemakers.  Discussing the making of cheese, wide-eyed and demonstrative – but not mentioning the historic geopolitical moves of younger brother Raul, Cuba’s current president.