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Manfred Goldberg wants you to know how the Nazis took his brother’s life. And how an angel saved his

Jan. 25, 2025 14:51 PM EST

LONDON (AP) — Manfred Goldberg was just 13 years old when — stripped to his skin and shuffling toward an SS guard at a Nazi labor camp in Latvia — a man leaned over his shoulder and whispered the secret that saved the young Jew’s life. “If he happens to ask you your age,...

Hundreds of Swedish forces arrive in Latvia in largest deployment with NATO to date

Jan. 18, 2025 09:54 AM EST

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Hundreds of Swedish troops arrived in Latvia on Saturday to join a Canadian-led multinational brigade along NATO's eastern flank, a mission Sweden is calling its most significant operation so far as a member of the Western defense alliance. A ship carrying...