Former Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein, whose reported conduct helped inspire the #MeToo movement, has been convicted in New York court of a criminal act in the first degree against one woman and third degree rape against another. He was acquitted of three other charges that are described as "more severe". He will be sentenced on March 11th, facing up to five years.
Read more at CBS New York, NBC News, CNN, USA Today and The Hollywood Reporter.
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In other things going on:
From National Review, how the coronavirus affects the economy.
From FrontpageMag, a Muslim accused of rape brings out his victimhood claims.
From Townhall, it looks like the Democrats might just nominate Senator Socialism (I-VT).
From The Washington Free Beacon, Senator Socialism's campaign manager won't say if Democrat leaders who spoke at AIPAC supported bigotry by doing so.
From the Washington Examiner, don't count Senator Fake Cherokee (D-MA) out just yet.
From The Federalist, President Obama helped create both President Trump and Senator Socialism.
From American Thinker, Trump's visit to India worries all the right people.
From CNS News, in 2016, Senator Socialism discused what he thought were "some very positive changes" in Cuba.
From LifeZette, according to Mr. Bill's old adviser Dick Morris, former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is scheming to make Hillary Clinton the Democrat presidential nominee.
From NewsBusters, CNN mocks President Trump about what he will do in a country which frowns upon eating beef.
From Canada Free Press, millennials rely on memes and emojis to indoctrinate.
From CBC News, indigenous northern people are redefining conservation.
From Global News, Ontario police arrest "several " people at a railroad blockade in Mohawk territory.
From CTV News, a timeline of railroad blockades by anti-pipeline groups in Canada.
From TeleSUR, some participant's in Brazil's Carnival protest against President Jair Bolsonaro.
From The Portugal News, Portugal's national airline TAP is cleared of wrongdoing over the alleged transport of explosives from Lisbon to Caracas, Venezuela.
From El País, the Catalan volunteers who conquered California for Spain.
From France24, a version of the Mona Lisa made of Rubik's Cubes sells at an auction in Paris for much more than its earlier estimation.
From RFI, the French government decides against closing its border with Italy over the coronavirus.
From SwissInfo, Swiss authorities step up measures against the coronavirus.
From ANSA, six people in Italy have died of the coronavirus, with over 200 others also infected.
From Free West Media, Italy now has the largest coronavirus outbreak outside of Asia.
From EuroNews, Austria suspends train traffic to and from Italy because of the coronavirus.
From the Malta Independent, fears of the coronavirus in Italy negatively affects maritime activity in Maltese seaports.
From Malta Today, 19 migrants are given a year in prison for rioting in a Maltese detention center.
From Total Slovenia News, does Slovenian prankster Miha Artnak create art or pollution?
From Total Croatia News, the Croatian government condemns the burning of an effigy of a same-sex couple with a child.
From Independent Balkan News Agency, at the 43rd session of the European Court of Human Rights, Montenegrin President Milo Đukanović claims that his country is under attack.
From Balkan Insight, Albanian prosecutors launch an investigation into alleged "panic-mongering" about the coronavirus.
From Ekathimerini, protesters on three Greek islands set up blockades to prevent the government from building new migrant detention centers.
From the Greek Reporter, two prominent British newspapers side with Greece over the Parthenon marbles.
From Novinite, the Bulgarian foreign ministry advises Bulgarians against unnecessary travel to China or Italy.
From The Sofia Globe, the Bulgarian government forms a crisis staff to deal with the threat from the coronavirus.
From Radio Bulgaria, migration pressure on Bulgaria has decreased from 2019.
From Romania-Insider, Romania will quarantine people arriving from Italian areas affected by the coronavirus. (If you read Romanian, read the story at News(dot)ro.)
From Russia Today, according to an opinion column, the MSM uses alarmist headlines over Russia's coronavirus measures, which are less stringent than those of the E.U.
From Sputnik International, Russia denies that its air force struck two villages in the Syrian region of Idlib.
From The Moscow Times, Russia, China, France, Germany and the U.K. will meet with Iran in Vienna on February 26th to discuss the 2015 nuclear deal.
From Daily News Hungary, Hungarian airports will screen passengers arriving from Italy for coronavirus.
From Hungary Today, Hungarian students arriving back from Italy are quarantined.
From About Hungary, Hungary's foreign ministry advises "thorough consideration" before visiting northern Italy.
From The Slovak Spectator, Slovak organizations say "no" to extremism and fear-mongering ahead of upcoming elections.
From Radio Prague, the Prague city council approves a proposal to rename the square outside the Russian embassy after Boris Nemtsov, who was killed by Chechens five years ago.
From Polskie Radio, the Auschwitz memorial slams Amazon for anti-Semitic books and the Hunters TV show.
From Voice Of Europe, statistics show a serious migrant crime problem in Norway. (If you read Norwegian, read a related story in Verdens Gang.)
From Deutsche Welle, a car crashes into a crowd at a Carnival parade in Volkmarsen, Germany, injuring at least 30 people.
From the NL Times, a Dutch-Chinese woman is attacked after asking people to stop singing a coronavirus-inspired song.
From Dutch News, the Dutch government-owned railway company NS has paid €32 million so far to victims who were transported by train to Nazi concentration camps or to their family members. (If you read Dutch, read the story at NOS.)
From VRT NWS, police discover a synthetic drugs lab in Tongeren, Belgium.
From The Brussels Times, the mayor of Aalst, Belgium claims that the costumes parodying Jews at the city's Carnival parade are not anti-Semitic.
From Euractiv, the E.U. should stop importing goods resulting from human rights violations.
From the Express, U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson reportedly holds a "powerful bargaining chip" against the E.U.
From the Evening Standard, laws blocking the early release of terrorists from prison clears a hurdle in the U.K. House of Lords.
From the (U.K.) Independent, more homeless British people are sleeping in garbage bins.
From the (Irish) Independent, Irish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar is worried about Sinn Féin's plans to hold rallies. (What is this "freedom of peaceable assembly" you speak of?)
From the Irish Examiner, a Brazilian man faced with deportation is reunited with his family in Galway, Ireland after being released from prison in Dublin.
From The Conservative Woman, the real cost of carbon dioxide alarmism.
And from Snouts in the Trough, don't worry about the hype over America's Senator Socialism, because Democrat bosses will ensure that the party nominates former Mayor Bloomberg.
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