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 ...

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 Ruseva and ...

VRACHESH, Bulgaria, Jan 29 (Reuters) - When Bulgarian doctor Irena Marinova arrived in an ambulance at the home of a pregnant Roma woman in November, she says she was beaten up by two men who accused ...

[JURIST] The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) [official website] on Tuesday called on authorities to end the hate speech and discrimination [press release] against the Roma ...

Small armies of teachers, social workers and police officers are swarming across Bulgaria to carry out a Herculean task -- convince tens of thousands of Roma parents to send their children to school.

The birth parents of “Maria” stumble out of a studio in the Bulgarian capital, minutes after their first major TV interview. Surrounded by bright lights and state-of-the art technology, Saska Ruseva ...

SOFIA (Reuters) – Scores of Roma people protested in Bulgaria’s capital Sofia on Friday over feared job losses due to a stricter application of a coronavirus lockdown in their main neighborhoods in ...

SOFIA (Reuters) - Bulgarian authorities said on Wednesday they would take into care most of the brothers and sisters of Maria, the four-year-old whose discovery in neighboring Greece captured global ...

While officials say they are merely trying to protect the Roma community from COVID-19, some of its members feel victimised by the restrictive measures put in place in their neighbourhoods. Since the ...

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 ...