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France’s most famous Nazi-hunting couple, Serge Klarsfeld and his wife Beate, have received top honours from President Emmanuel Macron.

Serge Klarsfeld, 83, received France’s highest award, the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour, while Beate, 79, received the National Order of Merit.

The pair began their mission to catch Nazis and bring them to justice after they married in the 1960s.

Amongst those they discovered was the notorious war criminal Klaus Barbie. He was a former officer in the Gestapo, Nazi Germany’s secret police, whose crimes in France led to him to become known as the “Butcher of Lyon”. He was in charge of deporting Jews and others to death camps.

After the war he fled to Latin America and was living in Bolivia when the Klarsfelds revealed his whereabouts in 1971.

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The Met Police’s acting commissioner witnessed the murder of PC Keith Palmer during the Westminster attack from inside his car, an inquest has heard.

Sir Craig Mackey said it was his instinct to get out of the car when he saw Khalid Masood attack, but he stayed because he had no protective equipment.

The attack happened as he was being driven out of the Palace of Westminster after a meeting on 22 March last year.

Masood also drove into and killed four people on Westminster bridge.

The 52-year-old was shot dead by armed police during the attack and his inquest is taking place at the Old Bailey in central London. The inquest into the deaths of PC Palmer, 48, Kurt Cochran, 54, Leslie Rhodes, 75, Aysha Frade, 44, and Andreea Cristea, 31, finished last week – the coroner ruled all five been unlawfully killed.

Sir Craig, now deputy commissioner of Scotland Yard, had been at the House of Commons meeting then-police minister Brandon Lewis.

As he was driven out of the Palace of Westminster with colleagues, he heard a “very, very loud bang” from the direction of Westminster tube station.

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Russian spies have been accused of involvement in a series of cyber-plots across the globe, leading the US to level charges against seven agents.

The US justice department said targets included the global chemical weapons watchdog, anti-doping agencies and a US nuclear company.

The allegations are part of an organised push-back against alleged Russian cyber-attacks around the world.

Russia earlier dismissed the allegations as “Western spy mania”.

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Detectives are continuing to question a man on suspicion of attempted murder after a stabbing on a London Overground train.

A male victim was seriously injured as the train pulled into Hackney Central Station at about 18:00 BST on Tuesday.

Police said the man was in a stable condition and recovering in hospital.

The arrested man, aged 55 and from Hackney, is also being held on suspicion of possessing an offensive weapon, police said.

The threat from a senior US diplomat to “take out” Russian missiles that Washington believes are in breach of an important Cold War arms control treaty looks set to cause additional tensions with Moscow, just ahead of a meeting of Nato defence ministers that opens in Brussels on Wednesday.

The US ambassador to Nato, Kay Bailey Hutchison, was speaking ahead of that meeting and brought up once again Washington’s contention that Russia is in breach of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) agreement of 1987.

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