Oliver Holmes

Thailand

Editor, International Desk at The Guardian

Editing on the @guardian international desk. Formerly reporting from a bunch of places in Southeast Asia and the Middle East.

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Articles

LA police make mass arrests as protesters defy overnight curfew

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Oliver Holmes |Dani Anguiano |Edward Helmore |Lois Beckett |Sam Levin |Lauren Gambino

Los Angeles police have announced they are making mass arrests in the city’s downtown area, as people gathered in defiance of an overnight curfew imposed after days of protests against Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown and military deployment. Late on Tuesday night local time, the LAPD wrote on X that “multiple groups” continued to congregate within the designated downtown curfew area. “Those groups are being addressed and mass arrests are being initiated,” it said.
India to send first astronaut on mission to International Space Station

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Oliver Holmes

The first Indian astronaut to visit the International Space Station is due to blast off as part of an effort by the world’s most populous nation to catch up with the US, Russia and China in human space flight missions. Shubhanshu Shukla, a 39-year-old air force fighter pilot, is one of a four-person mission launching on Tuesday from the US with the private company Axiom Space, which is using a SpaceX capsule.
Operation Spiderweb: a visual guide to Ukraine’s destruction of Russian aircraft

3 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Artem Mazhulin |Oliver Holmes |Lucy Swan |Laure Boulinier |Arnel Hecimovic

A Ukrainian drone attack has destroyed billions of dollars worth of Russian aircraft stationed at bases across the country, including at locations as far away as Siberia, in what Kyiv claims is its longest-range assault of the war. The spectacular operation, dubbed Spiderweb, was prepared in secret over 18 months.
Former university student demands refund after professor uses ChatGPT, protests, 'Tell us not to use it'

1 month ago | gigazine.net | Ella Stapleton |Rich-Joseph Facun |Oliver Holmes

May 20, 2025 08:00:00 The use of generative AI in top universities is a sensitive issue, and while university professors and faculty report that ChatGPT has greatly improved their research, they are shocked by the large number of university students using it.
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1 month ago | hbcuconnect.com | Oliver Holmes

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Pope Francis: basilica stays open overnight so thousands can pay final respects

2 months ago | aol.co.uk | Angela Giuffrida |Oliver Holmes

St Peter’s Basilica has reopened for thousands of people to pay their final respects to Pope Francis for a second day, following a brief pause after keeping its doors open all night. The 16th-century basilica, where Francis’s simple wooden coffin is placed on the main altar, was scheduled to close at midnight but remained open until 5.30am to allow in those who still wished to enter.
Israel military razed Gaza perimeter land to create ‘kill zone’, soldiers say

2 months ago | theguardian.com | Quique Kierszenbaum |Oliver Holmes

Israel’s military razed huge swathes of land inside the perimeter of Gaza and ordered troops to turn the area into a “kill zone” where anybody who entered was a target, according to testimony by soldiers who carried out the plan. Israeli combatants said they were ordered to destroy homes, factories and farmland roughly 1km (0.6 miles) inside the perimeter of Gaza to make a “buffer zone”, with one describing the area as looking like Hiroshima.
US bombing of Yemen compounding dire humanitarian situation - rights groups

2 months ago | theguardian.com | Oliver Holmes

A ramped-up US bombing campaign on Yemen has killed civilians and brought further destruction and uncertainty to the poorest country in the Middle East, compounding an already dire situation after Donald Trump cut aid, according to local people, humanitarian workers and rights groups. “Now the rampant bombing has started, you never know which way things will go,” said Siddiq Khan, who works as a country director in Yemen for the aid charity Islamic Relief.
Myanmar earthquake death toll tops 2,000, as health system ‘overwhelmed’

2 months ago | theguardian.com | Rebecca Ratcliffe |Oliver Holmes

The fallout from Myanmar’s earthquake has overwhelmed parts of the healthcare system, the World Health Organization has said, as the official death toll rose to more than 2,000, with many more missing. Rescue operations faced “significant obstacles including damaged roads, collapsed bridges, unstable communications and the complexities related to civil conflict”, the WHO said in an update.
First orbital rocket launched from mainland Europe crashes after takeoff

2 months ago | ca.news.yahoo.com | Oliver Holmes

A test rocket intended to kickstart satellite launches from Europe fell to the ground and exploded less than a minute after takeoff from Norway on Sunday, in what the German startup Isar Aerospace had described as an initial test. The Spectrum started smoking from its sides and crashed back to Earth in a powerful explosion just after its launch from from the Andøya spaceport in the Arctic. Images were broadcast live on YouTube.