Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta (R) greets his supporters with his deputy, William Ruto after attending a news conference in Nairobi on Mar. 9, 2013. (Siegfried Modola/Reuters)
11:33 am ET -Kenya's new president and deputy say they are cooperating with the International Criminal Court's investigation against them, but the ICC prosecutor says that's simply not true.
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