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The United States says the Congolese war crime suspect Bosco Ntaganda has handed himself in at the US embassy in Rwanda and asked to be transferred to the International Criminal Court, the ICC, in The Hague. Our East Africa correspondent Gabriel Gatehouse reports.

Bosco Ntaganda walked into the US embassy in Kigali on Monday morning unsolicited according to an official statement from Washington. Neither the United States nor Rwanda is a signatory to the ICC, but a spokeswoman for the state department said the US supported the work of the court and would aim to facilitate his transferal to The Hague. The charges against Gen Ntaganda, who’s nicknamed The Terminator, include rape, murder and the recruitment of child soldiers. They relate not to the current rebellion in the eastern Congo, but to an earlier conflict in the same region.

A legal case has begun in New York that challenges the way the city’s po lice conduct a policy of detaining and sometimes searching those they consider suspicious. Critics say the operations known as “stop and frisk” disproportionately target black and Hispanic men. But the policy’s supporters say it’s contributed to a sharp drop in violent crime. Here’s our North America correspondent Jonny Dymond.

More than half a million people were stopped on the streets of New York City last year by police. The policy is legal. But now opponents want the way that it’s put into action exam ined and reformed. More than half of those stopped are black, only a quarter of the city’s residents are. A lawyer for the organisation that started the case, the Center for Constitutional Rights, described the stops as a frightening and degrading experience that were arbitrary, unnecessary and unconstitutional.

The jailed Kurdish separatist leader Abdullah Ocalan says he’s to make a historic statement on Thursday, raising hopes that he might call a ceasefire after decades of conflict with the Turkish government. James Reynolds sent this report from Istanbul.

A delegation of Kurdish MPs was allowed to go and see Abdullah Ocalan in prison. The politicians took back with them to Istanbul a statement from the PKK’s leader. Abdullah Ocalan said that he would make a call, or announcement, during traditional Kurdish New Year celebrations on Thursday. This call will feature satisfactory information on the political and military aspects of the solution, he wrote. Most here take this to mean that Mr Ocalan will call a ceasefire and may also announce the withdrawal of armed PKK fighters from Turkey to their main base across the border in northern Iraq.