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China's Ministry of Commerce announced on Monday that it has added 20 Japanese entities, including the National Institute for Defense Studies, to the country's export control list.The ministry said the move aims to safeguard national security and interests while fulfilling non-proliferation and other international obligations.According to the statement, exporters are prohibited from exporting dual-use items to the entities, which it said are involved in enhancing Japan's military capabilities, o

The Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), the World Health Organization (WHO), and the Ugandan government have officially launched the Joint Continental Incident Management Support Team (IMST) to support continental health emergency capabilities amid the ongoing Ebola outbreak.The Africa CDC, in a statement issued late Saturday, said the newly launched IMST establishes a unified operational platform to strengthen Africa's capacity to prepare for, coordinate, and respond

A major breakthrough in organ transplantation has arrived in Africa, with South Africa's Wits Donald Gordon Medical Centre becoming the first hospital on the continent to introduce a liver perfusion machine, a cutting-edge technology that preserves and revives donated livers outside the human body.The introduction of the machine comes years after the world's first liver perfusion procedures were successfully performed elsewhere. The liver perfusion machine keeps donated livers functioning o

Iran and the United States traded fresh military strikes on Sunday while accusing each other of violating the peace memorandum signed less than two weeks ago, raising new concerns over the future of their ceasefire.Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said its forces fired ballistic missiles and drones at US military facilities in Kuwait and Bahrain early Sunday in retaliation for recent US strikes against five Iranian coastal posts.In a statement on its official news outlet Sepah New

Pakistani Foreign Minister Mohammad Ishaq Dar held a telephone conversation on Sunday with Bahraini Foreign Minister Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani, according to the Pakistani Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The two leaders discussed the evolving regional situation following the signing of the "Islamabad MoU."  Bahraini foreign minister indicated that he would visit Pakistan "in the near future" in order to personally thank Pakistan for the efforts to achieve the ceasefire, the ministry