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MANILA, Philippines – Another batch of Filipinos, mostly overseas Filipino workers (OFWs), arrived from Syria via Emirates Air flight EK322 on Thursday afternoon.

The country is so dangerous it's no wonder so many leave, travelling alone across the Middle East in search of a new life Behind the security bars of a spartan, white-tiled room, 25 youths are arranging bedrolls on the floor. The workers on the Salvation Army nightshift, who watch over these lone foreign teenagers in a shelter in a gritty corner of Paris, are distributing sheets and sleeping ...