Fresh clashes on the streets of Egypt – A European woman is free of her Sharia Law nightmare in Dubai – New revelations from the trove of spy secrets held by fugitive leaker Edward Snowden show eager Europeans cooperating with unprecedented surveillance.

Supporters and opponents of ousted Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi clashed on the streets of Cairo, and at least four people are dead.  The pro-Morsi side was marching to the US Embassy, but passed near an entrance to Tahrir Square, which has long been the stronghold of anti-Morsi activists.

The Sheikh of Dubai has pardoned a Norwegian woman who reported she was raped, only to be sentenced to 16 months in prison for having sex outside marriage.  The flagrant injustice sparked worldwide outrage against the medieval treatment of woman in the wealthy Gulf monarchy. Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum says that 24-year old Marte Deborah Dalelv is free to leave Dubai or stay if she likes.  As if.

The death toll is up to 50 lives lost in insurgent attacks on two Iraqi prisons that allowed more than 500 al Qaida militants to escape.  Two more attacks occurred on a Sunni Mosque and an army outpost in the northern city of Mosul.  It’s the latest violence stemming from the rivalry between the Sunni and Shi’a Muslim branches.

The European Union placed the military wing of the Shi’a group Hezbollah on the EU terror list, effectively freezing its assets in the EU.  The political wing of the Lebanese group is unaffected by the decision, which is expected to make enforcement of the order rather difficult.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has launched an investigation into ties between Germany’s secret service and American intelligence agencies.  This comes after Der Spiegel published documents provided by fugitive US intelligence analyst Edward Snowden that showed German services closely co-operated with the US National Security Agency (NSA).  Opposition leaders are calling for the head of the Federal Intelligence Service to go if the Der Spiegel article is true.

More bodies were found in China’s Gansu province after an earthquake that was just shy of magnitude 6.0.  At least 75 people are known to be dead and 400 are injured.  Gansu is a predominantly rural area and getting to all of the areas affected by the quake could take some time.  The area has been hit by more than 370 aftershocks.

Where is Kim Jong-Un’s aunt?  Some North Korea watchers are wondering if a purge has taken place, now that Kim Kyung-Hee has not been seen in public for three months.  She’s the daughter of North Korea’s founder Kim Il-Sun, sister of his successor the late Kim Jong-Il.  But “Madame Kim” did not appear at a memorial for the dear leader’s grandfather.  She dropped out of sight two years ago, reportedly to seek cancer treatments at a Moscow hospital.

Former Chicago cop-turned-actor Dennis Farina is dead at age 69 of a blood clot in his lung.  Farina was a detective in the Burglary division who moonlighted in the Chicago Theater scene in the 1980s alongside Gary Sinese, Joe Mantegna, and about a million other actors and playwrights who would later gain fame as well.  His big break came playing a Chicago cop (typecasting) in the 1980s TV series “Crime Story”, which led to movie roles in “Saving Private Ryan”, “Get Shorty”, “Out of Sight”, and more.