inquirer
Away from war: Government-set flights bring Filipinos home
By cbuban

MANILA, Philippines — The government on Saturday flew 442 Filipinos—about half of them migrant workers—out of the Middle East, where more than a week of bombardments of Iran by Israel and the United States and retaliatory strikes by Tehran have killed more than 2,100 people. More than 700 Filipinos who sought assistance to leave the