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First batch of Pinoys repatriated from Iraq arrives @ 2020-01-16T16: Back Hot News
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THE DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS (DFA) SAID THE FIRST GROUP FROM BAGHDAD, WHICH COMPRISES SEVEN ADULTS AND TWO MINORS, WAS SUPPOSED TO ARRIVE YESTERDAY BUT WAS INITIALLY HELD BY IRAQI IMMIGRATION OFFICIALS AT THE BAGHDAD INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT FOR “BASELESS ALLEGATIONS OF VISA FRAUD”.
THE PHILIPPINES EARLIER ORDERED THE MANDATORY EVACUATION OF FILIPINOS FROM IRAQ AFTER THE UNITED STATES』 TARGETED KILLING OF IRAN COMMANDER QASEM SOLEIMANI PUSHED THE REGION TO THE BRINK OF WAR. THOUGH BOTH COUNTRIES HAVE BACKED DOWN FROM FURTHER ATTACKS, THE PHILIPPINE GOVERNMENT CONTINUED TO URGE OFWS TO COME HOME AS THE SITUATION IN THE REGION REMAINED VOLATILE. – RAPPLER.COM
MANILA, PHILIPPINES — THE FIRST BATCH OF FILIPINOS EVACUATING FROM IRAQ AMID THE TENSION BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND IRAN ARRIVED IN THE PHILIPPINES ON WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, THE DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS (DFA) ANNOUNCED.
HOWEVER, THE US DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY ON MONDAY ANNOUNCED THE WITHDRAWAL OF CHINA FROM THE LIST AS A GESTURE OF GOODWILL BEFORE THE SIGNING OF THE “FIRST PHASE” OF AN AGREEMENT TO RESOLVE THE BILATERAL TRADE WAR IN THE US CAPITAL LATER THIS WEEK.
「OUR PLEA TO YOU IS NOT TO RETURN. THIS REPATRIATION IS LITERALLY 『BUWIS-BUHAY』 (RISKY). PLEASE SHARE (WITH) OUR OTHER COUNTRYMEN THAT WHERE YOU CAME FROM IS REALLY DANGEROUS AND TELL [THOSE STILL IN IRAQ] TO (COME) HOME,」 FOREIGN UNDERSECRETARY SARAH LOU ARRIOLA TOLD THE FILIPINOS DURING A BRIEFING.
MIDDLE EAST SPECIAL ENVOY ROY CIMATU AND LABOR ATTACHE DAVID DES DICANG WERE SUPPOSED TO MEET THE FIRST BATCH OF FILIPINO REPATRIATES FROM IRAQ. THE GROUP WAS HELD AT THE BAGHDAD INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT AFTER SOME OF THE OFWS ENCOUNTERED EXIT VISA PROBLEMS. MAXXY SANTIAGO, ABS-CBN NEWS
IRAN FIRED A SERIES OF BALLISTIC MISSILES THAT HIT TWO AIR BASES USED BY UNITED STATES TROOPS IN IRAQ EARLY MORNING LOCAL TIME WEDNESDAY, IN WHAT APPEARED TO BE THE FIRST RETALIATORY STRIKES BY TEHRAN FOR THE KILLING OF ONE OF ITS TOP GENERALS.
TRUMP RESPONDED BY THREATENING IRAQ. 「IF THEY DO ASK US TO LEAVE, IF WE DON』T DO IT IN A VERY FRIENDLY BASIS. WE WILL CHARGE THEM SANCTIONS LIKE THEY』VE NEVER SEEN BEFORE EVER,」 THE PRESIDENT TOLD REPORTERS ON A FLIGHT BACK TO WASHINGTON FROM HIS VACATION HOME IN FLORIDA. 「IT』LL MAKE IRANIAN SANCTIONS LOOK SOMEWHAT TAME.」 (
THE MAIDS HAVE TO PAYTHE $200 FINE SO THAT THEY CAN BE ISSUED EXIT VISAS. ALTHOUGH THE PHILIPPINEEMBASSY HAS THE FUNDS TO FLY THEM OUT FOR THEIR PLANE TICKETS, GESLANI SAID THESHEER NUMBER OF MAIDS WAITING FOR REPATRIATION HAS DELAYED THE PROCESS 「WHILETHE EMBASSY HAS ASKED THE DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS [DFA] IN MANILA TONEGOTIATE FOR AN AMNESTY FROM THE LEBANESE GOVERNMENT,」 ACCORDING TO GESLANI.
MARK ZEE, FOUNDER OF OPSGROUP, WHICH MONITORS GLOBAL AEROSPACE FOR RISKS THAT IT SHARES WITH INDUSTRY MEMBERS, SAID REROUTING TO AVOID IRANIAN AND IRAQI AIRSPACE COULD ADD AROUND 40 MINUTES TO TRIPS FROM EUROPE TO ASIA.
APART FROM THIS, SEVERAL PHILIPPINE OFFICIALS WERE LIKEWISE IN THE MIDDLE EAST TO ASSIST AND FACILITATE REPATRIATION EFFORTS. THE FIRST BATCH OF FILIPINOS EVACUATING FROM IRAQ WERE FLOWN TO QATAR MONDAY, JANUAARY 13, AND WERE SCHEDULED TO ARRIVE IN THE PHILIPPINES ON TUESDAY. – RAPPLER.COM
RESEARCHERS WANT TO INSPECT THE HANDFUL OF CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES BAKED BY ASTRONAUTS IN A SPECIAL ZERO G OVEN JUST IN TIME FOR CHRISTMAS. THE OVEN LAUNCHED TO THE SPACE STATION IN NOVEMBER, SO ASTRONAUTS COULD POP IN PRE-MADE COOKIE DOUGH PROVIDED BY DOUBLETREE. A SPOKESMAN FOR THE HOTEL CHAIN SAID FIVE COOKIES WERE BAKED UP THERE, ONE AT A TIME. THE COMPANY PLANS TO SHARE DETAILS OF THIS FIRST-OF-ITS-KIND EXPERIMENT IN THE COMING WEEKS.

 

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