There has been a range of reaction to what’s happened going from relief through to people who I've been told have been actually crying tears of disappointment and frustration that the Americans aren't about now to bomb the regime because of course people who support the armed opposition were anxious to see the opposition profiting from an American raid and I think people involved with the secular side of widely the Free Syrian Army were also hoping that the Americans would bomb the Jihadists who are their rivals.

The Deputy President of Kenya, William Ruto, has pleaded not guilty to charges of crimes against humanity at the opening of his trial at the International Criminal Court. Mr. Ruto was accused of orchestrating violence after disputed elections in 2007. Anna Holligan reports from The Hague.

The prosecutor Fatou Bensouda accused Mr. Ruto of using his power to procure weapons, secure funds and coordinate the violence. More than 1,000 people were killed and hundreds of thousands forced from their homes during three months of politically feud killings. For the international community, this trial has been seen as a test case for the ICC. William Ruto is the first serving official to appear at the ICC, in November, Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta is scheduled to join him.

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Venezuela has formally left the inter-American Human Rights Convention, a year after the late president Hugo Chavez announced his intention to abandon it. The Venezuelan government accuses the body of being controlled by foreign groups and interfering with domestic politics.