The US led coalition increased its assault on Islamic State militants, with over 30 airstrikes on the de-facto capital of Raqqa in Syria, the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Sunday.

At least 100 people were killed by Syrian government airstrikes which targeted mosques and public markets, last week said the Syrian observatory using reports form the ground.

The Syrian foreign minister, said that the Islamic State militant group would not be tackled unless Turkey was made to tighten its border controls, reports the Independent.

Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has been cleared of killings which occurred during the uprising which toppled his regime three years ago, after his initial life sentence was overturned and a retrial ordered.

Around 2000 protestors gathered on Tahrir Square in Cairo after the announcement, but were soon dispersed by police using tear gas.

"I did nothing wrong at all," Mubarak said in an interview to Sada al-Balad tv, adding that he had been "relying on God" while he awaited the decision.

An attack in China's restive Xinjiang province has left at least 15 people dead, according to China's official news agency.

Xinhua reported that the assailants used explosives and knives to attack civilians and that 11 of the dead were attackers.

Croatia's prime minister Zoran Milanovic has cancelled a planned trip to Serbia, protesting Belgrade's failure to distance itself from comments made by Serbian nationalist leader who was recently released from a UN war crimes tribunal.

At least four protesters have been killed and scores of others injured as Egyptian security forces opened fire on thousands of demonstrators protesting against the government of President Abdel Fatah al-Sissi, reports Aljazeera.

The protests, which were led by the opposition Salafist Front in Cairo, were the first mass demonstrations after months of quiet, after the Salafist Front called for an uprising to “topple military rule in Egypt.”

France warned that it would recognise a Palestine state if the final international effort for peace talks between Israel and Palestine failed whilst proposing a two-year negotiation time frame to end the conflict through a UN backed resolution.

“If this final effort to reach a negotiated solution fails, then France will have to do what it takes by recognising without delay the Palestinian state. We are ready,” said the foreign minister, Luarent Fabius on Friday.

British police are free to investigate members of the Egyptian cabinet for war crimes confirmed the UK High Court on Thursday, after ruling that they were not immune from investigation.

The UK Crown Prosecution Service agreed to inform the Metropolitan Police that “issues of immunity do not preclude investigations into allegations against persons still in office, irrespective of their function, for the purpose of future prosecution”.