TWENTY-FOUR more overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) are expected to return to the country from strife-torn Syria today, the Department of Foreign Affairs announced in a statement. With this most recent batch of OFWs evacuated by the Philippine embassy in Damascus, the total number of repatriates from Syria will now be 1,267, the department said. The crisis alert declared by the Philippine government for Syria has been on Level 4 since December last year in view of the rising violence between the Syrian government and local opposition forces.

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Tatlong menor de edad ang nasagip ng awtoridad mula sa umano'y prostitution den sa Los Baños, Laguna.

Hawak ng pulisya ang surveillance video, na nagsilbing patunay sa nangyayaring pangangalakal ng laman sa isang bahay sa Barangay Batong Malaki. 

JUSTICE Secretary Leila de Lima yesterday said the case against 16 officials of the Bureau ofImmigration accused of facilitating the trafficking of overseas Filipino workers to war-torn Syria is now deemed submitted for resolution.

De Lima had directed the BI officials to answer within 72 hours the charges against them and explain why they should not be slapped with administrative charges.