Today is Mardi Gras, or in English, Fat Tuesday, when western Christians eat up before the start of Lent. So while you're stuffing yourselves, here are some things going on:
From National Review, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev demands that U.S. missiles and nukes are removed from Europe.
From Townhall, contrary to the border crisis deniers, the illegal aliens keep flooding in
From The Washington Free Beacon, over 100 Democrat congresscritters support want private health insurance to be banned.
From the Washington Examiner, why there's so much knife crime in London.
From The Federalist, new abortion bills in Illinois might outdo those in New York and Virginia.
From American Thinker, The Atlantic learns to be careful what it wishes for.
From LifeZette, American manufacturers see two years of record optimism.
From FrontpageMag, ICE is as important as the border wall.
From Voice Of Europe, right-wing populism advances in Estonia.
From Russia Today, two anti-communist activists are detained in Moscow for disrupting the commemoration of Stalin's death.
From Sputnik International, Russia may deploy missiles that can reach anywhere in Europe if the U.S. deploys similar weapons.
From The Moscow Times, the grand mufti of Russia predicts that the country will be 1/3 Muslim in 15 years.
From Radio Poland, Poland celebrates 20 years of NATO membership.
From Radio Praha, Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš travels to the U.S. to meet with President Trump (whose first wife just happens to be a Czech).
From the Hungary Journal, members of the European People's Party threaten Hungarian Prime Minister Orban.
From Daily News Hungary, Hungarian diplomat Zoltán Kovács tells the BBC that George Soros has been a political player for decades.
From About Hungary, according to a Hungarian spokesman, Hungary has fulfilled its Schengen commitments.
From Independent Balkan News Agency, Albanian opposition supporters rally in front of the country's parliament.
From Ekathimerini, according to the Hellenic Civil Aviation Authority, Venezuela's foreign minister was on a plane that landed at the Athens airport.
From the Greek Reporter, 20 people have been charged in connection with a fire in Mati, Greece.
From Morocco World News, the U.S. gave 2,223 Moroccans legal permanent resident status during the first nine months of 2018.
From El País, Catalonia's parliament speaker, testifying at the trial of separatist leaders, says that Catalans will not give up on deciding their own future.
From France24, a "radicalized" prisoner wounds two guards in a knife attack.
From RFI, why France has not said much about the political crisis in Algeria.
From VRT NWS, after being parked in the same place for is six years, a car in Mortsel, Belgium is towed away.
From the NL Times, a Dutch party calls for a new tax on millionaires.
From Deutsche Welle, German politicians welcome French President Emmanuel Macron's E.U. initiative.
From the Express, European Council President Donald Tusk claims that "Brexit was hijacked by foreign forces".
From the Evening Standard, three suspicious packages left near London transport hubs turn out to be IEDs.
From Birmingham Live, a British transport cop is told that she is not a "proper Muslim" for wearing her police uniform.
From the (U.K.) Independent, the U.K. Labour party orders its MPs to vote for a second Brexit referendum.
From the (Irish) Independent, the suspicious packages found in London were posted from Dublin.
From the Irish Examiner, Ireland is respected for helping Syrian refugees.
From CBC News, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is beset by high-profile resignations.
From CTV News, Trudeau "hunkers down" after a second cabinet minister resigns.
From Hürriyet Daily News, after eight years, Turkey reopens the Öncüpınar border gate with Syria. (Yes, that's an "i" without the dot.)
From Turkish Minute, according to Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu, Turkey will detain tourists at airports of they are suspected of terrorism.
From Rûdaw, civilians flee from the last ISIS redoubt in Baghouz, Syria.
From Arutz Sheva, a man who allegedly aided and abetted the Barkan terrorist gets a 30-count indictment.
From The Times Of Israel, the Islamic Waqf rejects an Israeli court order to close the Gate of Mercy on the Temple Mount.
From The Jerusalem Post, a group of Israeli activists wants a synagogue built on the Temple Mount.
From YNetNews, the spacecraft Beresheet takes a selfie.
From the Egypt Independent, Egypt legalizes 156 churches and affiliated service buildings.
From Radio Farda, Saudi Arabia welcomes the U.K.'s ban on Hezbollah.
From Dawn, India reportedly planned an attack with Israeli help.
From The Express Tribune, Pakistan's High Commissioner to India returns to New Delhi.
From Pakistan Today, Pakistan places 44 members of Jaish-e-Mohammad into preventive custody.
From Khaama Press, Afghanistan appoints Zahra Bayan Shenwari as the new chief of its Independent Electoral Complaints Commission.
From NDTV, a Pakistani minister is criticized for making anti-Hindu remarks.
From the Phyllis Chesler Organization, Afghanistan follows Ms. Chesler to the West.
From the New York Post, detentions of asylum seekers and migrants surged at the Mexican border in February. (We can only wonder how many asylum seekers and migrants crossed the border without being apprehended.)
From Page Six, at age 21, Kylie Jenner becomes the world's youngest self-made billionaire.
And from The Babylon Bee, Republicans weep bitterly after learning that former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton won't run in 2020.
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