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 ...

BUCHAREST, Romania -- Since the European Union lifted visa requirements for Romanians in January, with a view to Romania's eventually joining the EU, thousands of Gypsies have flooded European cities, ...

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 ...

CHOISY-LE-ROI, France - At age 8, Abel Bot is starting school a bit late. The past few weeks have been a crash course in how to be a schoolboy: how to hold a pencil, to raise a hand in class, to ...

Pope Benedict XVI will welcome groups of European gypsies to the Vatican this Saturday. The delegation, which will include members the Roma, Sinti, Manouches, Kale, Yenish and Travellers communities ...

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 ...

They are the underclass, the outcasts, but over the past few weeks, the Roma — who make up Europe’s largest minority — have been the center of attention, because of France’s recent program of forcibly ...