The first repatriation flight carrying 299 Filipinos from the Middle East arrived in Manila early Wednesday as tensions continue to escalate in the region, Malacañang said. The Emirates flight EK336 from Dubai landed at Ninoy Aquino International Airport Terminal 3 at 6:45 a.m., Presidential...
Top diplomats of all Southeast Asian nations said Wednesday, March 4, it is "regrettable" that Israel and the United States attacked Iran, which eventually led to retaliatory attacks affecting other nations, despite ongoing mediation efforts by Oman. The Association of Southeast Asian Nations...
Senator Francis “Chiz” Escudero on Tuesday, March 3, urged the Department of Energy (DOE) to put in place a mechanism that would help cushion the possible impact of the Middle East tension on the prices of petroleum products in the country. Escudero pointed this out as the escalating tension in...
More than 1,400 Filipinos across the Middle East have requested for repatriation amid the ongoing conflict in the region, President Marcos said. In a press conference at Malacañan on Tuesday, March 3, Marcos announced that the number of Filipinos who have expressed to be sent back home had reached...
The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) on Monday, March 2, released the current list of Crisis Alert Levels in countries in the Middle East amid the ongoing conflict in the region. The DFA is the prime source of alert levels for Filipinos in any country, as it is the one setting them. Here are...
The National Security Council (NSC) clarified that there are no American military bases in the Philippines amid heightened tensions in the Middle East and threats by Iran to strike United States military installations abroad. In a statement read by Presidential Communications Office (PCO)...
Malacañang stressed that President Marcos remains guided by the rule of law and international law amid the escalating conflict in the Middle East, even as his immediate priority is the safety of Filipinos in the region. Presidential Communications Office (PCO) Undersecretary Claire Castro said...
Malacañang said there are no changes so far to President Marcos’ scheduled working visit to the United States next week, despite escalating tensions in the Middle East and the recent death of a Filipina in Israel. “Sa ngayon, wala pa pong pagbabago sa schedule (As of now, there are no changes...
Senator Risa Hontiveros on Monday, March 2 expressed hope that the tension in the Middle East brought about by the United States and Israel’s attack on Iran won’t spillover further to other countries that are allied with the US. The Philippines, for one, has renewed its treaty relationship...
Filipina caregiver Mary Ann Velasquez de Vera managed to bring her employer to safety before she was killed by Iran 's missile attack on Israel. When the sirens blared across Israel on the first night of its joint attack with the US on Iran on Feb. 28, the 32-year-old overseas Filipino...
Israel 's embassy in the Philippines has expressed its condolences to the family of the Filipina caregiver who was killed during an Iranian missile attack on Tel Aviv amid the ongoing Middle East conflict. Mary Ann Velasquez de Vera, 32, from Basista, Pangasinan, lost her life when a missile...
President Marcos on Sunday night, March 1, confirmed the death of a Filipina in Israel amid the ongoing exchanges of attacks in the Middle East, marking the first reported Filipino casualty since the conflict escalated. In a video message uploaded to his social media accounts, the President said...
