Hello, Australia! – Indonesia is reacting to reports Australia paid off human traffickers – Boko Haram picks a new target to commit mass murder – Kurdish fighters deal a blow to Islamic State – And more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

Indonesia’s vice president is hitting out at Australia over reports Australia paid human traffickers to betray a shipload of immigrants.  “Bribing is of course not according with the ethics of international relationships,” said Vice President Jusuf Kalla.  PM Tony Abbott has refused to fully deny reports that the navy intercepted an immigrant ship and paid the smugglers to take the immigrants back to Indonesia.  Meanwhile, opposition leader Bill Shorten says he’ll continue to press the Abbott government for answers about the alleged payments.

China announced it is almost finished with its island building campaign in the South China Sea.  The announcement will not be greeted well by the Philippines, which has a long-standing overlapping claim in the same waters; and the United States which fears China is about to declare an exclusion zone where international shipping has passed freely for years.

Chad is blaming the Nigerian terrorist group Boko Haram for a pair of suicide bombings that killed at least 23 people and wounded more than a hundred more.  It’s the first such attacks in Chad, and the government responded with a strongly worded statement:  “Boko Haram chose the wrong target. These lawless and faithless terrorists will be flushed out and neutralized wherever they are.”  Along with Nigeria, Niger, and Cameroon, Chad is part of the regional coalition taking on Boko Haram.

Kurdish fighters say they have taken control of Tal Abyad from Islamic State.  The village on Syria’s border with Turkey had played a key role in IS’s black market oil operation.  “The whole city is under our control and there is no more fighting,” said Huseyin Kocher, a Kurdish YPG commander in Tal Abyad, “Our people should know that we are going to clean all the remnants of IS in northern Syria.”

US intelligence agencies are determining of a senior Al Qaeda figure was killed in a CIA drone strike in Yemen.  And just in case you were keeping track, it would like the 5, Billionth Al Qaeda second-in-command to be killed since 2001 – if confirmed.  The Americans say there is a strong possibility that Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula leader Nasir al-Wuhayshi is dead. 

Colombia says its armed forces have killed a top commander of the National Liberation Army (ELN), a Marxist group that was formed in 1964 to fight unequal distribution of land in the South American country.  Jose Amin Hernandez Manrique – AKA “Marquitos” – is believed to have been responsible for a 1999 airline hijacking.  He was killed in the northwestern province of Antioquia last week.  The ELN has not yet entered into peace talks with the government, as has the Marxist FARC group.

French President Francois Hollande is sounding the alarm that time is running out to prevent Greece from leaving the Eurozone.  If that does happen, it means billions of dollars in debts will be declared in default and never be paid back to European creditors.  Eurozone Finance Ministers will meet on Thursday, but Yanis Varoufakis says Greece will not present any new ideas.  The EU wants Athens to adopt more budget cuts and other bits of Austerity’s greatest hits.

The Vatican has set a trial date for its former envoy to the Dominican Republic to face child sex charges.  The trial of Jozef Wesolowski is to commence on 11 July, for sexually abusing children in the Dominican Republic from 2008 to 2013.  Also, Pope Francis has accepted the resignations of two American bishops following accusations that their archdiocese covered up the sexual abuse of children.