See here for the EU’s full statement. Extract reproduced below:

"On 21 August, a large-scale chemical attack was perpetrated in the outskirts of Damascus, killing hundreds of people, including many women and children. That attack constituted a blatant violation of international law, a war crime, and a crime against humanity. We were unanimous in condemning in the strongest terms this horrific attack.

Information from a wide variety of sources confirms the existence of such an attack . It seems to indicate strong evidence that the Syrian regime is responsible for these attacks as it is the only one that possesses chemical weapons agents and means of their delivery in a sufficient quantity.

In the face of this cynical use of chemical weapons, the international community cannot remain idle. A clear and strong response is crucial to make clear that such crimes are unacceptable and that there can be no impunity. We must prevent creating a dreadful precedent for the use of chemical weapons in Syria again, or elsewhere.

The Washington Senate Committee passed a resolution in favour of military action on Syria, whilst President Barack Obama, defied pressure from world leaders to abandon plans for air strikes against Syria, during a discussion over the crisis in the Middle-East at the G20 world summit.

Speaking at the end of the G20 discussions, British Prime Minister David Cameron, also outlined the need to act without the backing of the UN security council.

The Dutch Supreme Court has ruled that the state is liable for the deaths of three Bosnian Muslim men that were massacred in Srebrenica in 1995.

The men were working for Dutch peacekeeping forces and were sheltering in a UN compound, when it was overrun by Bosnian Serbs and the Dutch ordered them to leave.

MPs in Kenya have voted for a motion withdrawing from the ICC during an emergency debate.

Opposition MPs boycotted the vote, but a bill will be introduced within the next month.

Rebels from the Democratic Republic of Congo M23 movement indicated today, that they were prepared to resume peace talks with the Congolese government.

Russian president Vladimir Putin has said that Russia could support UN-approved military action if proof was presented that it was the Assad regime that used chemical weapons in an attack last month.

He told Associated Press that such evidence would have to be “deep and specific” and “prove beyond doubt who did it and what means were used”.

The Kenyan parliament is expected to hold a session to debate ending the country’s membership of the International Criminal Court (ICC).

The justice ministry of the southern German state of Baden-Württemberg has said it may pursue 30 former guards of the Auschwitz concentration camp.

49 guards had been investigated by the judiciary, of which 30 should be prosecuted, officials said.

Thousands of Rwandans, who have been living in Tanzania for most if not all their lives have been forcefully evicted from their homes.

A former Nazi officer has been charged with murdering a Dutch resistance fighter in September 1944.

92-year old Siert Bruins, an officer of the Schutzstaffel (SS), is accused of shooting Aldert Klaas Dijkema after he was captured near Groningen.

The prosecutor at the court in Dortmund said that the defendant’s age should not prevent justice being served.