(CBS/AP) NIKOLAEVO, Bulgaria - DNA tests have confirmed that a Bulgarian Roma couple are the parents of a mysterious girl in Greece known as Maria, authorities said Friday. Genetic profiles of Sasha ...

NIKOLAEVO, Bulgaria — The mystery is solved — but the future of the young girl known only as Maria is still uncertain. DNA tests have confirmed that a Bulgarian Roma couple living in an impoverished ...

The charge that a relative of a Roma clan leader killed a Bulgarian teenager sparked anti-Gypsy demonstrations across the country last weekend. Thousands of protesters took to the streets in at least ...

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 ...

Belatedly, a link to the post on “adoption of abandoned Bulgarian Gypsy children by non-Gypsy Bulgarians and foreigners” – at Maya's Corner. Global Voices stands out as one of the earliest and ...

SOFIA, Aug 16 (Reuters) - Recent riots in the capital by Bulgaria's Roma gypsies were the result of discrimination, a human rights group said on Thursday, but it played down the prospect of localised ...

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 ...

Limb-girdle muscular dystrophy type 2C (LGMD2C) is an autosomal recessive disorder caused by mutations in the γ-sarcoglycan gene. A ‘private’ Gypsy C283Y mutation was detected in this gene. Recently, ...

PARIS — France was getting ready Wednesday to start the expulsion of Gypsy migrants despite hefty criticism at home and abroad of the action. Media reports said the first group of 79 was to be flown ...

Objective To determine the effects of a behavioural intervention for prevention of HIV and sexually transmitted diseases that identified, trained, and engaged leaders of Roma (Gypsy) men's social ...

Each year, Atanas Zachariev leaves Budapest to visit family and friends in his native Bulgaria. Each year, the situation in that Balkan country for Roma like himself, he says, gets worse. So a ...