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Yanis Varoufakis is standing down as Greece’s Finance Minister.  On his blog, the oft-confrontational Yanis writes that he is a “minister no more”, because certain Eurogroup participants signaled their preference that he no longer attend meetings of his counterparts.  “An idea that the Prime Minister judged to be potentially helpful to him in reaching an agreement.  For this reason I am leaving the Ministry of Finance today,” Yanis wrote.  “I consider it my duty to help (Prime Minister) Alexis Tsipras exploit, as he sees fit, the capital that the Greek people granted us through yesterday's referendum. And I shall wear the creditors' loathing with pride.”

The news hit the stock markets hard, sending shares tumbling by hundreds of points in Tokyo, Seoul, Shanghai, Mumbai, and Karachi. 

While Greek voters celebrated in Athens after overwhelmingly rejecting a referendum on continuing on the path of EU-imposed austerity, some of its European creditors are extra-grumpy – already sending signals that their hearts are hardening.  German Vice-Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel said Greece’s PM Alexis Tsipras had “torn down the last bridges on which Greece and Europe could have moved towards a compromise”.  Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande will meet on Monday, and European Council President Donald Tusk is convening an emergency summit of Eurozone leaders on Tuesday. 

Australian scientists are offering a free education – to Liberal Party MPs who deny the existence and negative impact of climate change.  In a letter to the Liberals, 13 leading scientists wrote that “the time for delay is over”; and failing to make decisions based on the “best available science” would “imperil our people and our country”.  Among the signatories are leading Great Barrier Reef researcher Ove Hoegh-Guldberg and ecologist Lesley Hughes. 

The Philippines has confirmed a second case of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS):  A 36-year old visitor who arrived last month on a plane from Dubai exhibited symptoms and was admitted to hospital.  Before Dubai, the man was in Saudi Arabia.  The first case in the Philippines was a nurse who caught it in Saudi Arabia in January, and survived.

Islamic State suicide bombers struck at Baiji, a key oil-producing town in Iraq’s north, forcing the Iraqi army and Shiite militias to pull back.  Baiji and Iraq’s largest refinery have been key battlegrounds for more than a year, since the terrorists first seized the town.  In that time, neighborhoods and sections of the refinery have changed hands several times.

The last missing animal from the Tbilisi Zoo in the Republic of Georgia has been found dead.  The tiger was among many animals, some quite dangerous, that escaped three weeks ago when raging floodwater tore through the zoo.  More than half of the zoo’s 600 animals were killed, including another tiger that was shot after mauling a man.

Pope Francis travels to the Ecuadorian port of Guayaquil later today to preside over a Mass that is expected to draw more than a million people.  The big photo-op will be Francis’ reunion with an old friend, 91-year old fellow Jesuit Fr. Francisco “Padre Paquito” Cortes, who the former Jorge Mario Bergoglio knew from study trips to Ecuador decades ago.  On Sunday, Francis gave a speech highlighting the need to care for society's most marginal, guarantee socially responsible economic development and defend the Earth against profit-at-all-cost development that he says harms the poor the most.