Caught in the Middle: Europe and the Iran Crisis
Nobody asked Europe whether it wanted this war. The US and Israel acted alone on February 28th, and the continent woke up to a crisis it had no hand in starting but now has no choice but to navigate.
Nobody asked Europe whether it wanted this war. The US and Israel acted alone on February 28th, and the continent woke up to a crisis it had no hand in starting but now has no choice but to navigate.
Before dawn on February 28, 2026, explosions tore through Tehran. Air raid sirens followed seconds later, but by then the first wave of strikes had already hit.
When Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, it did not count on one thing: that among the defenders standing in its way would be Bulgarians.
Bulgaria has a constitution, a parliament, and a president. What it has struggled to maintain, with remarkable consistency over the past decade, is an actual functioning government. Since 2021 alone, the country has cycled through five caretaker cabinets,
It was supposed to last four years. It lasted just 399 days - 70 of them spent in caretaker status after the prime minister's own resignation.
The appointment of Andrey Gyurov as Bulgaria's caretaker prime minister shows what's really happening in Bulgarian politics right now. Behind the constitutional formalities, a coalition against corruption is taking shape before April's elections.
The numbers don't add up. Iran says 3,000. Human rights groups say at least 6,000, maybe 22,000. Some doctors claim 30,000 or more.
On 20 October 2025, on the occasion of Deepavali, the great Indian festival of lights, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, speaking from aboard India’s first indigenously built aircraft carrier INS Vikrant, drew attention to the centrality of the Indian Ocean i
The images from Davos tell a disturbing story: Bulgaria's outgoing Prime Minister Rosen Zhelyazkov, representing a government that has been in resignation since December following massive protests, signing away our country's European credibility.
Bulgaria just witnessed something that's never happened before - a sitting president resigned to jump into the political arena. Rumen Radev, who's been running the show at the presidential office for nearly a decade, stepped down on January 19th, handing
Bulgaria’s switch to the euro on January 1, 2026, was meant to be a technical procedure: a fixed exchange rate, dual pricing, monitoring, and clear sanctions
Donald Trump's renewed interest in acquiring Greenland has evolved from what many dismissed as an eccentric fixation into a genuine geopolitical crisis that threatens to fundamentally reshape transatlantic relations and global security architecture
The unprecedented kidnapping in the world annals, in the manner in which it took place, of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro constitutes not only a military intervention in a sovereign and independent country in violation of the principles of internatio
The introduction of the euro in Bulgaria, initially meant as a straightforward technical operation, quickly exposed systemic weaknesses and raised questions about state oversight
As the clock prepares to strike midnight and we bid farewell to 2025, all of us at Novinite.
As Bulgaria prepares to welcome the euro on January 1, 2026, we look back at a year that saw our readers grapple with questions of identity, security, economic transformation, and Bulgaria's place in an increasingly volatile Europe
With the first anniversary of Donald Trump’s second term approaching, the phrase “Tariffs, Trade, and Tantrums” has come to encapsulate the governing style of the 47th President of the United States.
As we reach the end of another eventful year, we at Novinite.
Most reasonable voices advocating against a US invasion of Venezuela don’t think Maduro is great. They are simply against the invasion
On the evening of December 1, 2025, Bulgaria witnessed its most significant popular mobilization since the 1990s
Bulgaria's Parliament has taken a historic step by approving the nation's inaugural state budget denominated in euros during its first reading
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