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Greece decided to close its banks for a week in the midst of a growing debt crisis.

Over the past few weeks, Greeks have been scrambling to withdraw money from ATMs over fears the nation’s banks will soon run out of cash. The decision by the Greek government to close its banks follows the European Central Bank’s announcement on Sunday that it wasn’t extending its emergency funding to the country.

“The temporary closure of banks in Greece, and the introduction of capital controls, is very bad news for Greece. Greek people will have less money to spend and business less to invest; so an already weak economy will probably return to deep recession,” BBC News’ Robert Peston writes.

Greece faces a deadline tomorrow to pay back a 1.6 billion euro (about $1.77 billion) loan from the International Monetary Fund. A default on that would “set in train events that could lead to the country's exit from the euro currency bloc,” according to Reuters. Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has called for a vote on July 5 to give Greeks a say on whether the country should accept the austerity terms of the bailout, such as increased taxes and pension cuts.

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Puerto Rico’s governor, Alejandro García Padilla, says the country cannot pay its roughly $72 billion in debts, calling the debt “not payable.” The island of 3.6 million has “more municipal bond debt per capita than any American state,” according to the New York Times. “A default on its debts would most likely leave the island, its creditors and its residents in a legal and financial limbo that, like the debt crisis in Greece, could take years to sort out,” the Times writes.

The hunt for the two convicted killers who escaped from a New York prison is over.

Authorities captured David Sweat yesterday. On Friday, police shot and killed his fellow escapee, Richard Matt. A police officer shot Sweat after spotting him jogging down a road in Constable, New York, about a mile and a half from the Canadian border. He’s expected to survive his injuries.

The prisoners escaped from the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, New York, on June 6. They used power tools to cut through their cell walls and a drain pipe. Two prison workers have been charged in connection with the escape. The 22-day manhunt involved roughly 1,000 officers.

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BuzzFeed News’ Dan Vergano looks at how this escape and manhunt was both typical and unusual. Both men were captured or killed within about 40 miles of the prison, and their “close proximity to the prison was entirely predictable, based on the history of fugitives like them, crime experts say,” Vergano writes. But most escape plans aren’t as elaborate and Matt and Sweat’s, and most prisoners who escape together split up after they’re out to help avoid detection. Another thing that wasn’t typical: the shootout and the end. “Shootouts or similarly violent recapture happens in fewer than than 1% of all escapes,” Vergano writes.

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Talks aimed at reaching a deal on Iran’s nuclear program are likely to miss tomorrow’s deadline.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif is heading home from Vienna, where the talks are taking place. The move reflects “both that the talks [have] a ways to go and [Zarif’s] need to get instructions on how to proceed on issues where the sides remain apart,” the Associated Press writes. The six world powers engaging in the talks with Iran — the U.S., the U.K., France, China, Russia, and Germany — “want to limit Iran's sensitive nuclear activities to ensure that it could not build a nuclear weapon quickly,” according to BBC News. In exchange, the countries would lift international sanctions on Iran.

What’s next?

“Both sides recognize that there is leeway to extend to July 9,” the AP writes. “As part of an agreement with the U.S. Congress, lawmakers then have 30 days to review the deal before suspending congressional sanctions.” But if there’s no deal by July 9, Congress will then have 60 days for review, “giving both Iranian and U.S. critics more time to work on undermining an agreement.”

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Inside the global megachurch that’s accused of being a cult.

Over the past two decades, Colombia’s Iglesia de Dios Ministerial de Jesucristo Internacional, La Ministerial, has built a massive following with almost 900 churches worldwide.

“But the church of María Luisa Piraquive stands apart for its zealous reverence for its leader, and for the strange rite at the heart of its doctrine — the practice of prophecy, a literal foretelling of the future that strays from Protestant orthodoxy,” BuzzFeed News’ David Noriega reports. “This ritual, according to the church’s defectors, is also the principal mechanism by which the Ministerial lures believers, isolates them, and manipulates them into submission to the church and its motives.”

Through a loophole, a drone delivered abortion pills to women in Poland, where abortion is illegal.

The drone brought medical abortion pills to as many as five Polish women, who otherwise don’t have access to abortion. “Abortion has been basically illegal in Poland since 1993, but Dutch abortion advocacy group Women on Waves is betting on a legal loophole which founder Rebecca Gomperts says legitimately lets the group fly abortion pills in by unmanned aircraft,” BuzzFeed News Jina Moore reports.

“Unmanned” is is the key. If you drove the pills across the border, or you carried in them your suitcase, you could be prosecuted under Polish law for helping someone get an abortion, Gomperts explained. “But because the drone is being flown in from Germany, there’s [technically] nobody delivering it,” Gomperts said.

Quick things to know:

• U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron pledged a 'full spectrum' response to a terror attack in Tunisia that killed 38, most of whom were British tourists. (BuzzFeed News)

• The FBI is investigating four fires at black churches in four states across the South. Authorities say at least three of the blazes were the work of arsonists, but there’s no indication that the fires are connected at this point. (BuzzFeed News)

• Almost 500 people were injured in an explosion at a water park in Taiwan. (CNN)

• An unmanned SpaceX rocket on a cargo mission to the International Space Station exploded shortly after liftoff on Sunday. The timing of the failure was “terrible for SpaceX, NASA and the Obama administration more broadly.” (Washington Post)

• The 21st century has really not been great for women and minorities in STEM. (BuzzFeed News)

• “The communities that congregate on Kanye West forums are essentially (more) diverse, rap-obsessed, fashion-conscious Reddits, and their audiences are big enough to warrant banner ads, and any money that comes with it.” (BuzzFeed News)

• Disney will no longer allow selfie-sticks at its theme parks. (Orlando Sentinel)

• A visual effects artist made a parody trailer that reimagines the characters of Avengers: Age Of Ultron as those from The Wizard of Oz — and it’s amazing. (BuzzFeed)

• Were all those rainbow profile photos another Facebook experiment? (The Atlantic)

Here’s the full list of winners at the BET Awards last night (The Hollywood Reporter), what everyone wore (BuzzFeed) and everything you missed. (BuzzFeed)

Happy Monday

LGBT communities around the world celebrated this weekend with Pride parades and festivals. Cities in the U.S. also celebrated following the Supreme Court’s historic ruling for marriage equality and these photos from the parades around the world show what it looks like when love wins.