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Oliver Holmes

Oliver Holmes is a Guardian journalist. He was previously Jerusalem correspondent and has reported across the Middle East and Asia. Twitter @olireports

July 2024

  • Volodymyr Zelenskiy  and Rishi Sunak walking and talking outdoors at G7 in June

    What do governments abroad want from the UK election?

    Despite both Labour and the Tories sidelining foreign policy in their campaigns, some foreign leaders are following the outcome keenly

June 2024

  • Marlene Engelhorn stands with a placard reading ‘Tax the rich!"’

    Green and social groups to benefit from €25m fortune of Austrian heiress

  • A man stuffs hotdogs into his mouth.

    ‘Gutted’: champion eater Joey Chestnut excluded from New York hotdog-eating contest

May 2024

  • The centre of the Milky Way galaxy, captured by the infrared cameras of Nasa’s Spitzer space telescope.

    ‘We’re in a new era’: the 21st-century space race takes off

    As humans enter what has been termed the ‘third space age’, it’s private companies – not governments – leading the charge

April 2024

  • Nasa depiction of Voyager 1 operating in space

    Voyager 1 transmitting data again after Nasa remotely fixes 46-year-old probe

  • People wade through a submerged street after heavy rain in the United Arab Emirates

    Desert city of Dubai floods as heaviest rainfall in 75 years hits UAE

March 2024

  • The collapsed bridge in Baltimore

    Baltimore bridge collapse: what we know about the bridge, ship and port

  • Jordanian army personnel carrying out an airdrop over northern Gaza on 15 March.

    ‘Man-made starvation’: the obstacles to Gaza aid deliveries – visual guide

  • Hezbollah’s leader, Hassan Nasrallah, giving a televised address on the death of Mohammad Yaghi, a senior Hezbollah official, in December.

    What is Hezbollah’s role and influence in Lebanon?

  • SpaceX's mega rocket Starship launches for it's third test flight from Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, Thursday, March 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

    SpaceX’s Starship destroyed on return to Earth at end of third test flight

  • Paul Alexander, lawyer who lived for decades with an iron lung, dies aged 78

  • Haiti: what caused the gang violence and will it end now the PM has quit?

  • MH370: one of aviation’s biggest mysteries remains unsolved 10 years on

February 2024

  • Israeli soldiers patrol in the West Bank city of Ramallah with a mural showing Marwan Barghouti.

    ‘The most popular Palestinian leader alive’: Releasing Marwan Barghouti could transform territories’ politics

    The 64-year-old is respected by secular nationalists and Islamists alike, and his much called-for release after two decades in jail for terror charges could bring a ceasefire closer

January 2024

  • Pro-Palestinian demonstrators outside the International Court of Justice in The Hague, Netherlands, on 26 January

    Middle East crisis live
    Medical services at Gaza’s largest functioning health facility collapse amid intense fighting in Khan Younis, warns MSF – as it happened

  • Demonstrations outside the international court of justice (ICJ) in The Hague.

    World court’s interim ruling on genocide in Gaza: key takeaways

  • A Palestinian man carrries his daughter past rubble

    What is the ICJ and what is South Africa’s claim against Israel?

  • The USS Laboon in the Red Sea.

    Iraq accuses US of ‘reckless escalation’ of regional violence after latest strikes

  • Nose wheel falls off Boeing 757 passenger jet awaiting takeoff

  • Wars and climate crisis keep Doomsday Clock at 90 seconds to midnight

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