Hello, Australia! – At least some European officials appear to be ready to kick out Greece – Former enemies are welcomed at the White House to discuss a new potential foe – This appears to be a bad week to try to seek justice for genocide – And more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker says he has prepared a scenario for forcing Greece out of the Euro single currency union, and possibly out of the European Union itself.  “The commission is prepared for everything.  We have a Grexit scenario, prepared in detail,” Juncker said without elaborating, or realizing how much he sounds like a Bond villain. 

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has until Thursday to submit his proposal to end the stalemate over paying its debt, and until Sunday to wrap up the deal.  Tsipras says that his government has submitted a proposal for an agreement – although it’s not clear if that was submitted on paper, orally, or if it’s any different from the stance he’s taken all along.  Tsipras has insisted that the results of last weekend’s referendum gives him a mandate to reject anymore EU-imposed austerity.

French President Francois Hollande says Greece needs to prove it wants to remain part of the Eurozone.  “What’s at stake is to know the place of Greece in the European Union and thus the eurozone,” said Hollande.  Meanwhile, Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi says the EU must look forward no matter how the Greek situation is resolved.  Renzi says it is now time to “invest in a different vision of Europe, invest in a different idea of Europe, in a Europe focused on growth and not just austerity”.

US President Barack Obama hosted the leader of the Vietnamese Communist Party for a historic meeting at the White House to discuss China’s expansion in the South China Sea.  Vietnam and China have long had a contentious relationship, and the US took advantage by ramping up diplomacy with Vietnam when China parked an oil exploration vessel in Vietnamese waters more than a year ago.  China has laid claim to most of the South China Sea, past its internationally recognized maritime boundaries and into territory already belonging to Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia, Taiwan, and Brunei.

It looks like Guatemala’s ex-dictator might get away with genocide.  The country’s forensic authority says 89-year old Efrain Rios Montt is mentally unfit to face a retrial for ordering the murders of 2,000 indigenous Maya whom he believed were Leftists during his US-backed rule in the 1980s.  A 2013 conviction was overturned on a technicality.  The tribunal has until 23 July to decide whether to accept the forensic authority’s recommendation.

The United Nations Security Council is putting off a vote on a British resolution that would rand the 1995 Srebrenica Massacre “a crime of genocide”.  Bosnian Serbs slaughtered 8,000 Muslims who had sheltered from the Balkans War in what was supposed to be a UN-protected site.  Russia told Security Council members that it would veto the measure after consultations with Serbia and Bosnian Serbs. 

The taxpayers of New York City will have to pay US$333,000 to settle lawsuits from people who were illegally pepper sprayed by an out-of-control police official during the 2011 Occupy Protests.  Deputy Inspector Anthony Bologna was widely recorded on video going berserk and spraying young women with the noxious stuff without provocation.  He was not prosecuted and instead was transferred to the borough of Staten Island – a promotion, because that’s where he lives – and penalized ten vacation days.