Minister of Health and Labor Tanel Kiik (Center) says he hopes the new Reform-Center administration which was sworn in on Tuesday will be able to focus on concrete work and not have to spend time fending off disputes and scandals, as former prime minister Jüri Ratas (Center) had had to.
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Afghans hopeful for change under Biden
Many in Kabul are telling us they’re hoping the Biden administration pays closer attention to the peace talks and finds incentives for the Taliban to reduce its current killing spree. (Here’s an overview of recent attacks.)
Shahzada Masoud, a former presidential adviser, is one of these voices. “Biden needs to make sure that the American forces depart in a responsible manner,” he told Radio Free Afghanistan.
Ministry of Social Affairs Deputy Secretary General Maris Jesse has hit out at the head of Valga Hospital s actions in offering coronavirus vaccines on a preferential basis to fellow members of humanitarian development society Rotary International.
Jesse, who is also board chair of Tartu University Hospital – Valga Hospital s parent organization – told local daily Tartu Postimees (link in Estonian) that the doses which Valga Hospital s director, Margus Ulst, offered to Rotary International members, popularly known as the Rotary Club and including the women s arm of the organization, the Inner Wheel, as revealed in a leaked email, were meant for priority groups, which in this case means the hospital staff.
KUWAIT CITY, Jan 14: The Ministry of Social Affairs has set procedures and controls for collecting donations to pay blood money and the associated compensation, in order to organize blood money collection by charities under the umbrella of the Ministry of Social Affairs. In a decision issued by the
Ministry deploys Tagana to help evacuate Sumedang landslide victims 10th January 2021
Torrential rain has caused landslides that claimed 11 lives, and rendered eight others missing Cihanjuang Village, Cimanggung Sub-district, Sumedang District, West Java Province, on late Saturday (Jan 9, 2021). ANTARA PHOTO/Novrian Arbi/wsj. Jakarta (ANTARA) - The Social Affairs Ministry has deployed the Disaster Preparedness Youth (Tagana) to help the evacuation of victims of landslide in Sumedang District, West Java.
The Tagana would help the authority to collect data and evacuate the victims, especially the elderly, children and disabled persons, the ministry said in its statement here on Sunday.
Head of the Research and Social Counseling Syahabuddin said, the ministry has dispatched humanitarian assistance worth Rp1.053 billion.