The government’s evacuation program for overseas Filipino workers in Syria remains in “full swing,” with the repatriation on Thursday of another 26 OFWs from the strife-torn Middle East country, according to the Department of Foreign Affairs.

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The 59-year-old has passed away nearly three years after he was released from a Scottish prison on compassionate grounds on the basis he had just three months to live.