World Report

MOSCOW (JTA) -- Vandals painted swastikas on the main Jewish memorial in the Latvian capital of Riga.

The incident took place July 3, one day before the country commemorated Jewish victims of the Holocaust. The monument stands at the site of a synagogue that the Nazis torched in 1941, burning alive dozens of Jews who had sought shelter inside.

British nail bomber gets 6 life sentences

LONDON -- A British nail bomber who decorated his bedroom with Nazi paraphernalia was given six consecutive life sentences for murder.

Last spring David Copeland planted three nail-filled bombs in largely gay, black and Bangladeshi areas of London. His bombs wounded more than 100 and killed three, including a pregnant woman. Copeland, a 24-year-old engineer who considers Hitler a hero, told the court he wanted to start a "racial war."

KGB trashed papers on Wallenberg's fate

MOSCOW (JTA) -- The KGB destroyed documents about the fate of Raoul Wallenberg, according to Russian officials.

The officials discussed the case of the Swedish diplomat who saved tens of thousands of Jews in Hungary during World War II with former Israeli Ambassador Yohanan Bein, who visited Moscow last week. A Russian-Swedish committee is currently investigating what happened to Wallenberg, who disappeared in January 1945.