News 08/06/26

Danish footballer Christian Eriksen says he is back at home and doing well after collapsing during Sunday’s friendly against Ukraine.

In an Instagram post, Eriksen confirmed he is with his family, explaining that while receiving a shock from his internal cardiac defibrillator had a major impact on them, it was a different situation from his previous collapse in twenty-twenty-one.

Seven women have accused billionaire businessman and West Ham co-owner David Sullivan of predatory sexual behaviour.

A joint investigation by BBC Panorama and the Times reports that the allegations span decades, beginning in the nineteen-eighties. The women, who were models seeking work at Sullivan’s newspapers, accuse him of abusing his power by pressuring them for sex during business meetings and offering career advancement in exchange for sexual favours.

Failure by the NHS to pay social care providers in the Thames Valley is creating a “critical situation,” according to health officials.

Data from the Oxfordshire Association of Care Providers reveals that the Thames Valley Integrated Care Board owes forty-four million pounds in unpaid invoices for Continuing Health Care services. In a letter to the board’s chief executive, Jane Hanna described the delays as deeply alarming, noting that many providers are operating on extremely tight financial margins. The Integrated Care Board has issued an apology to suppliers for the knock-on effects caused by these payment failures.

Iran’s joint military command has announced the end of its military operations against Israel.

The statement warns that if Israel carries out any further “aggression and hostile acts”, including in southern Lebanon, then “much more severe and crushing measures than before will follow”. The announcement follows demands from Donald Trump that both nations immediately stop shooting, as the latest flurry of attacks threatens efforts to secure a lasting peace deal.

The UK government has called on tech giants, including Apple and Google, to block access to naked images for users under eighteen.

Sir Keir Starmer has told firms to either activate built-in features or update operating systems to prevent children from taking, sending, or viewing sexually explicit content. Speaking at London Tech Week, the Prime Minister insisted this is a challenge the world’s most innovative companies can solve. The government will introduce legislation to force compliance if firms do not act voluntarily within three months.

A public inquiry into the Nottingham attacks has revealed a “catastrophic collapse of responsibility”.

Valdo Calocane, who had been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, stabbed three people to death and tried to kill three others on June thirteenth, twenty-twenty-three. Speaking in London, Barnaby Webber’s mother, Emma, described the fourteen-week inquiry as brutal, bruising, and harrowing, but ultimately very necessary.

At least thirty-two people have died after a magnitude-seven-point-eight earthquake struck off the coast of Mindanao in the Philippines.

The quake triggered tsunami alerts across several nations, which were later cancelled. Images show buildings reduced to rubble, including a fast food restaurant, and landslides have been recorded in some areas. Authorities confirm over one hundred people are injured, almost two dozen remain missing, and ten thousand residents have been evacuated.

The Israel Defence Forces have confirmed that their air force struck military targets in western and central Iran.

Iranian state television reported that explosions were heard in Tehran, Tabriz, Karaj, and Isfahan, though no immediate details regarding the extent of the damage were provided. The Revolutionary Guard stated that Israel deployed air-launched ballistic missiles during the Monday morning attack. This retaliation follows Iran’s own missile strike yesterday, despite reports that President Trump had personally urged the Israeli leader to refrain from an immediate counter-attack.

Hundreds of NHS patients have been harmed due to incidents that should never occur, including operations on the wrong body part and medical objects being left inside them.

New annual data from NHS England reveals there were four hundred and three so-called “never events” between April twenty-twenty-five and March this year. These serious incidents are considered entirely preventable. The analysis shows one hundred and sixty-six cases related to wrong-site surgery, including seventeen instances where the procedure was intended for a different patient, and forty cases involving treatment on the incorrect side of the body.

Tsunami alerts were issued following a magnitude seven-point-eight earthquake that struck Mindanao in the Philippines.

Agencies in the US, Indonesia, and the Philippines initially published warnings, urging residents to move inland or seek higher ground immediately. While Indonesian authorities have since stood down their alert, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center indicated that waves of up to three metres remained possible in the Philippines, with smaller swells potentially affecting parts of Malaysia.