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The SpaceX Crew Dragon Capsule docked with the International Space Station, and two crew members entered.  Canadian astronaut David Saint-Jacques and Russian Cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko were the first to enter the unit, using a docking port that was last opened in 2011 when the space Shuttle Atlantis made its final visit.  The Crew Dragon is set to detach from the ISS on Friday morning before returning to Earth; if the experiment is judged successful, manned space flights could begin pretty soon:  "Unless something goes wrong I should think we'll be flying people this year - this summer, hopefully," said SpaceX chief Elon Musk.

Just as the tensions between nuclear neighbors India and Pakistan appeared to be easing, Washington is looking into whether Pakistan used its US-made F-16 fighter jets to shoot down an Indian warplane during a dog fight over Kashmir last week.  That would be a violation of trade agreements, but Pakistan is denying the allegation.  India says it has fragments of the missile that downed its jet that could only have come from an F-16.  Pakistan has a long history of using US military hardware, but currently assembles Chinese-designed JF-17 fighter jets on its soil. 

The head of the Brazilian mining giant Vale SA, Fabio Schvartsman has resigned over the collapse of a, iron ore tailings dam which killed 186 people in the town of Brumadinho; 122 are still missing.  Several other executives resigned as well, on the recommendations of prosecutors investigating the case.  The company buried the announcement on Carnival weekend when most people are distracted and the stock markets will be closed on Monday and Tuesday.     

Algerian president Abdelaziz Bouteflika announced plans to leave office, but not until the next election that many people do not want him to contest.  The country has been rocked by a week of protests against his continued rule and spread through to Algerian ex-pat communities in other countries.  The 82-year old Bouteflika has made few public appearances or speeches since suffering a stroke in 2013, leading to widespread conjecture the country is being run by his brother and the military.

Huge crowds flooded the streets of Milan in a giant anti-racism protest.  Organizers say at least 200,000 people marched, which is remarkable considering that Milan is generally said to be a stronghold of xenophobic far-right The League party - part of Italy's new governing coalition that has tried to close its ports to boats with migrants travelling across the Mediterranean.