
As Italy struggles to contain a rising tide of xenophobia and racism, the largest and most despised minority in the country has acquired a glamorous standard-bearer. Like 1.2 million other residents of Italy, Ramona Badescu is an immigrant from Romania...

Thousands of mourners headed Wednesday to the funeral of Jeno Koka, the fifth Hungarian Gypsy shot to death in a series of crimes police say may have been committed by the same group.
Germany has started building a memorial to about 500,000 Gypsies persecuted by the Nazis.
Poland’s Education Minister plans to shut down Gypsy-only school classes following complaints they are discriminatory.
Italian officials carrying out a survey of the country’s Gypsy population will only fingerprint those who don’t have a valid ID, the Interior Ministry said Tuesday, apparently dropping plans to fingerprint all Gypsies after critics called it...
European Union lawmakers on Monday condemned Italian plans to fingerprint tens of thousands of Gypsy adults and children, calling it a discriminatory action that smacked of Nazi Germany.Legislators called for an EU-wide policy that would help integrate...
Clark Haynes is hoping for a wet spring and more money from Congress. If both fail to materialize, the assistant director for the state Department of Agriculture’s forest health protection programs says next year’s gypsy moth season could be the...
A dispute between two Gypsy clans over control of the fortunetelling trade in this Southern California city has spilled into court, offering a rare glimpse of an insular culture that has long settled scores according to its own Old World rules of...
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