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Family of soldier shot in Afghanistan: 'This has devastated all of us'

One of the five soldiers killed in Afghanistan todaywas a father of two young boys who had been in the army for more than 20 years. Relatives and friends of Sergeant Matthew Telford said the 37-year-old, a long-serving guardsman in the Grenadiers, had ...

From MARTIN WAINWRIGHT, PETER WALKER, Guardian Unlimited,  4 Nov 2009

From the archive, 1 May 1992: Riots fire US race divide

The United States was tottering last night on the brink of a new racial crisis, pitting black against white in the nation's cities, which turned Los Angeles into a war zone on Wednesday night. In Atlanta, the last resting place of Martin Luther King, ...

From MARTIN WALKER, SIMON TISDALL, Guardian Unlimited,  30 Apr 2009
Related Topics: Rodney King,  George W. Bush,  Pete Wilson,  Tom Bradley

From the archive: Russia offers to dismantle Euromissiles

Mr Mikhail Gorbachev made a new offer yesterday, effectively to dismantle the Soviet Union's entire short-range missile armoury in Europe as part of an overall deal on nuclear rocketry on the Continent. Mr Gorbachev made the proposal during a meeting ...

From MARTIN WALKER, Guardian Unlimited,  14 Apr 2009
Related Topics: Mikhail Gorbachev,  Ronald Reagan,  Eduard Shevardnadze

Paper Trail

In January 1992, Jonathan Brent, the editorial director of Yale University Press, flew to the newly re-established nation of Russia in a bid to secure the rights to publish selected material from Soviet archives for the Annals of Communism project of ...

From MARTIN WALKER, The New York Times,  23 Jan 2009
Related Topics: Boris Yeltsin,  Vladimir Putin,  Hoover Institution,  Leonid Brezhnev,  United Nations

Book review: "Inside the Stalin Archives'

In January 1992, Jonathan Brent, the editorial director of Yale University Press, flew to the newly re-established nation of Russia in a bid to secure the rights to publish selected material from Soviet archives for the Annals of Communism project of ...

From MARTIN WALKER, International Herald Tribune,  23 Jan 2009
Related Topics: Boris Yeltsin,  Vladimir Putin,  Hoover Institution,  Leonid Brezhnev

Post-war prefab housing on the Excalibur estate

Residents in south London talk about their homes that might soon receive Grade II-listed ...

From PETER WALKER, MARTIN GODWIN, Guardian Unlimited,  23 Sep 2008

Walker's World: EU threat to U.K. rescue

In a striking warning of the loss of national sovereignty that comes with EU membership, Britain's $100 billion bailout plan for its banks and mortgage market is threatened with a ban from Brussels. ...

From MARTIN WALKER, United Press International,  28 Apr 2008
Related Topics: France Telecom S.A.,  Mervyn Allister King,  Microsoft Corporation,  European Commission,  Novartis

Walker's World: A tale of two cities

New York's mayor has money and power; London's mayor has neither. But London's voters have more fun. Is this the way to run the city of the future? ...

From MARTIN WALKER, United Press International,  23 Apr 2008
Related Topics: Boris Johnson,  Tony Blair,  Labor Party,  Margaret Thatcher,  BMW

Walker's World: What food crisis?

The world food crisis is partly supply and demand, partly government meddling but mainly a lack of logical planning. ...

From MARTIN WALKER, United Press International,  21 Apr 2008
Related Topics: European Union

Walker's World: France's food fight

France has fought a stubborn and increasingly desperate rearguard action for the past 30 years to protect its farmers against the competition of world markets through the mechanism of Europe's Common Agricultural Policy. But the answer to food shortages ...

From MARTIN WALKER, United Press International,  16 Apr 2008
Related Topics: World Bank,  Bernard Kouchner,  Robert Zoellick,  Jean Ziegler

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