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Veterans and politicians gathered in Normandy today to mark the 65th anniversary of the D-Day landings on beaches in northern France that led to the Allied victory over Nazi Germany.

US president Barack Obama, British prime minister Gordon Brown, French president Nicolas Sarkozy and Canada’s prime minister Stephen Harper are taking part in a ceremony at a cemetery near Omaha Beach.