American philanthropist George Soros on Thursday called for the integration of Gypsies in Eastern Europe, saying it could prevent an outbreak of unrest similar to the recent rioting in France. Soros, ...

PLOVDIV, Bulgaria — A small boy shimmies up a utility pole, gingerly grabs an insulated cable pulsing with high voltage and connects it to his home: a cube of corrugated iron sheets in Bulgaria’s ...

In this article, the terms “Gypsies” and “Roma” are used interchangeably, but there are differences. “Roma,” the preferred term internationally, is not actually as inclusive, as there are some Gypsy ...

THREE dozen or so bloated corpses of Gypsies from Kosovo were recently fished out of the turquoise waters off the coast of Montenegro. Perhaps more than 100 had drowned when a boat smuggling them to ...

The boy sat near the bridge, at the edge of the Gypsy camp, rolling a cigarette. The bridge was an elegant garbage heap. It was put together with planks, aluminum siding, rope, tree trunks, sodden ...

The Roma minority, known as Gypsies, unfortunately, are used to discrimination and violent attacks. But recent violence in Eastern Europe has reached a new level of ferocity. Several Roma, including ...

This city is full of stark, Soviet-era housing blocks, and the grimmest among them — gray towers of one-room apartments with communal bathrooms and no hot water — are given over to the Roma population ...

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Tired of reading soap opera subtitles to his wife while watching TV, Costel Pitigoi gave her an order: Learn to read them yourself. So Maria Pitigoi joined 29 other women in this town’s Gypsy enclave ...

The French government's decision to deport Roma immigrants back to Romania and Bulgaria has rankled some of France's European neighbors. Ben Barnier of Global Post reports on the controversial ...

Gypsies - now known as the Romani people- that live in many countries of Europe are of Indian origin, a new study published yesterday in the scientific journal Cell Biology has confirmed. NEW DELHI: ...