Britain starts meningitis shots after two deaths at Kent

Health authorities in the United Kingdom launched a vaccination program against meningococcal B after an outbreak at the University of Kent that killed two people. The program was a direct response to those campus deaths. It was not described as a nationwide emergency beyond the vaccination offer.

Northern Ireland health minister Mike Nesbitt said students up to age 25 would be offered the meningitis vaccine because of the Kent outbreak. The offer extended the same public-health response across the Irish Sea. It named the age band and the reason.

Brazil's health ministry suspended a single-dose dengue vaccine after two deaths and another severe event among more than 500,000 people who had received it. Officials said no causal link had been established and that a safety review was underway. The pause was precautionary on the information published that day.

The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons said the nine nuclear-armed states raised spending nearly 20 percent in 2025, to 119 billion dollars, the highest annual total on record. That was a security-spending figure, not a clinical one, but it shared the week with the vaccine news. It did not describe a new weapons test.

Eleven people, including four police officers, were killed and dozens injured in clashes in Azad Kashmir between police and supporters of the banned Joint Awami Action Committee. Police arrested more than 70 members of the group. The violence was a political clash with a death toll, separate from the disease counts.

A United States-led group of Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Norway, and the United Kingdom endorsed a civilian-led political dialogue for Sudan. The backers named the African Union, the Arab League, the European Union, IGAD, and the United Nations as facilitators. The statement was diplomatic support, not a ceasefire on the ground.