Hello, Australia! – Greece os poised to demand more from its European creditors, but are they in the mood? – A stumble slows a nuclear deal with Iran – Shocking (or totally expected) revelations about comedian Bill Cosby – And more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

Greece and the Eurozone will make one last ditch attempt at negotiating a bailout deal.  Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is said to be ready with a new proposal, which demands that Greece’s debt be cut by 30 percent.  While the Germans appear as grumpy and stubborn as ever, other European countries are showing a willingness to soften the push for austerity that the Greek people categorically rejected in the referendum over the weekend.  Greece wants to save pensions, but the country could run out of cash this week – forcing Athens to defaults on its debt to Europe, and possibly issuing IOUs or a parallel currency for its domestic bills .

Foreign Ministers for the six major world powers and Iran have run into a roadblock to curbing Tehran’s nuclear ambitions.  Iranian negotiators are pushing to have a UN arms embargo lifted as part of a separate but concurrent deal.  But Western officials oppose it.  There is progress to report in other key areas, such as the pace of sanctions relief for Iran, and an international investigation into whether Iran’s previous nuclear work involved trying to develop weapons.  The six world powers are the US, UK, France, Germany, Russia, and China.

US President Barack Obama made a rare visit to the Pentagon to update the fight against Islamic State, which he insisted is aiming progress.  But Mr. Obama warned it is a “generational struggle”, and the ultimate defeat of IS and similar terrorist groups would be achieved through ideas, not guns.  This comes after repeated warnings of possible attacks against the US and US interests over the Fourth of July weekend – attacks with never materialized.

A 13-year old female suicide bomber was the only fatality in a Boko Haram attack outside a major mosque in Kano, the largest city in northern Nigeria.  “It’s very likely the mosque was her target, but the explosives went off prematurely,” said a police official.  But the terrorist group’s series of attacks over the previous seven days killed more than 500 people.  Boko Haram increasingly uses children and girls as suicide bombers in its quest to establish a hard line Islamic caliphate in northeast Nigeria.

Venezuela recalled its ambassador to Guyana after the oil giant Exxon said it discovered a potentially huge oil deposit in disputed territory.  This stretches back to the 19th Century, to a court ruling that ordered Venezuela to give up its rights to a jungle area called the Essequibo.  Caracas disputes the ruling.  Still, most observers believe this will not come to a military confrontation.

Comedian Bill Cosby testified in a civil suit that he obtained Quaaludes for the purpose of giving to women in order to have sex with them.  The admission came in a 2005 case that was settled out of court for an undisclosed amount of money the following year, when the judge sealed the records.  Reporters this year sued to break that seal.  More than 40 women have accused Cosby of drugging and sexually assaulting them in incidents going back decades.

The world’s oldest man died in Tokyo, Japan at age 112.  Sakari Momoi was born in the year Orville and Wilbur Wright performed the world’s first airplane flight.  He credited his longevity to eating right and getting plenty of sleep.  The world’s oldest man title stays in Japan, passing to 112 year old Yasutaro Koide who was born a month after Sakari-san.  The world’s oldest person is 116-year old Susannah Mushatt Jones of Brooklyn, New York City, who just celebrated her birthday on Monday of this week.