BARBULESTI, RomaniaBARBULESTI, Romania — This predominantly Gypsy town an hour’s drive from Romania’s bustling capital seems stuck in another century. Horse-drawn carriages churn muddy roads into near ...
CLUJ-NAPOCA, Romania — In the Somesheni neighborhood in the Transylvanian capital city of Cluj-Napoca, nine Catholic Gypsy families live inside un-insulated metal boxes that act like iceboxes in the ...
Romanian President Traian Basescu apologized Monday for calling a journalist a "stinky Gypsy" during a conversation recorded on the reporter's cell phone and broadcast on local television. Subscribe ...
COSTESTI, Romania — A Romanian Gypsy leader today compared French President Nicolas Sarkozy to Romania's pro-Nazi wartime leader, following the expulsion of hundreds of Gypsies from France. Speaking ...
It's a Gypsy wedding, and the 15-year-old bride is mourning shattered dreams of studying medicine as she steels herself for a life more Middle Ages than Modern Times. A schoolgirl just weeks ago, she ...
BUCHAREST, RomaniaBUCHAREST, Romania — What’s in a name? An insult, according to Romania’s Gypsies who are pushing for the nation’s leading dictionary to add “pejorative” to its definition of the word ...
Parliament's upper house has rejected a law officially renaming the country’s Roma as Gypsies, but the issue remains a live one. Romanian plans to rename the country’s Roma as “Gypsies” have taken a ...
PARIS – PARIS (AP) — France was deporting nearly 100 Gypsies, or Roma, to their native Romania on Thursday as part of a very public effort by conservative President Nicolas Sarkozy to dismantle Roma ...