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3 Popular Hulu Movies and TV Shows to Binge-Watch (December 27-28)

Maravi Post Reporter

The Huludays aren’t quite over on Hulu just yet, as the selection of films and series on the site’s top 15 list is dominated by Christmas flicks to a ridiculous degree.

At the moment, the first two Home Alone movies are occupying the No. 1 and No. 2 slots. But since Christmas has passed, we have other recommendations in mind.

Watch With Us‘ three popular movies and TV shows to binge-watch this weekend only include one Christmas-adjacent film.

Our other picks include a newly arrived film from theaters and a TV show for anyone who loves science fiction.

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‘The Life of Chuck’ (2025)

The Life of Chuck is a Stephen King adaptation that’s very different from his horror stories or serious dramas that have made it to the screen before. Instead, this is more like a fantasy that surrounds Charles “Chuck” Krantz (Tom Hiddleston), an ordinary accountant who is somehow the most important man in the world during the final days of existence itself.

Chuck’s life is explored in reverse order, as Jacob Tremblay, Benjamin Pajak and Cody Flanagan play him at earlier stages in his life. In the present, Marty Anderson (Chiwetel Ejiofor) and his ex-wife, Felicia (Karen Gillan), are mystified by the tribute messages to Chuck even as the world is overcome by natural disasters. Who is Chuck, and why is he such a pivotal figure? You’ll find out if you watch it.

The Life of Chuck is streaming on Hulu.

‘Fringe’ (2008 – 2013)

If you’re old enough to remember when the concepts of The X-Files were new and amazing, then Fringe might be the show for you. This series debuted on Fox 17 years ago, but its approach to episodic and serialized storytelling still feels modern. This show also shies away from any supernatural or paranormal incidents in favor of mad science unleashed on a world that isn’t ready for it. Anna Torv plays FBI Agent Olivia Dunn, a woman who is assigned to the agency’s Fringe division to investigate unexplainable crimes against science and humanity.

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To make sense of her new cases, Olivia negotiates the release of Dr. Walter Bishop (John Noble), a man who created many wild innovations before he was institutionalized. Walter’s estranged son, Peter (Joshua Jackson), reluctantly joins Olivia’s Fringe team as well. And Peter turns out to be far more important to the unfolding mysteries than anyone initially suspects, including Peter himself.

Fringe is streaming on Hulu.

‘Die Hard’ (1988)

Die Hard is currently one of the only non-traditional Christmas movies in Hulu’s top 15. But unlike the other movies, we can watch John McClane (Bruce Willis) kick terrorist butt any day of the year. This film is closing in on its 40th anniversary, and yet it still puts many modern action flicks to shame with its thrilling sequences, compelling characters and memorable performances from Willis and the rest of the cast.

The late Alan Rickman is particularly riveting as Hans Gruber, the leader of a group of terrorists/thieves who seize control of Nakatomi Tower on Christmas Eve. All of the company’s employees are taken hostage, including John’s estranged wife, Holly Gennaro-McClane (Bonnie Bedelia). By sheer luck, John eludes capture and alerts the police about the hostage situation. But with no help forthcoming from the LAPD, this New York cop is going to take matters into his own hands.

Die Hard is streaming on Hulu.

Lifestyle

UN warns U.S. deportations of Venezuelans to El Salvador

Maravi Post Reporter

The UN human rights office warned Tuesday that the deportation of hundreds of Venezuelan immigrants from the U.S. to El Salvador is “raising huge human rights concerns”.

“Lawyers don’t know where they are,” Liz Throssell, a spokesperson for the OHCHR, said at a news conference in Geneva. “In fact no one knows where they are for certain, and we don’t know the legal basis.”

In March, the U.S. government deported more than 200 Venezuelan immigrants alleged to have ties to the Tren de Aragua gang to El Salvador, paying the Salvadoran government to imprison them.

Since then, they have had no access to lawyers or ability to communicate with their families. Neither the U.S. nor Salvadoran governments have said how the men could eventually regain their freedom.

“Reports indicate that many of the detainees were not informed of the US Government’s intention to deport them to be held in a third country, that many did not have access to a lawyer and that they were effectively unable to challenge the lawfulness of their removal before being flown out of the US,” Throssell said.

Flights carrying immigrants were already in the air when a federal judge issued an order temporarily barring the deportations under an 18th century wartime declaration targeting Venezuelan gang members.

The immigrants were taken to the notorious CECOT facility, the centerpiece of El Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele’s push to pacify his once violence-wracked country through tough police measures and limits on basic rights.

Bukele has agreed to house about 300 immigrants for a year at a cost of $6 million in his country’s prisons.

“The UN Human Rights Office has information from family members and lawyers regarding more than 100 Venezuelans believed to be held in CECOT,” Throssell said.

International human rights organizations on Friday filed a lawsuit with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights asking that the commission order El Salvador’s government to release the Venezuelans.

The immigrants were removed after Trump’s declaration of the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, which has been used only three times in U.S. history.

The law, invoked during the War of 1812 and World Wars I and II, requires a president to declare the United States is at war, giving him extraordinary powers to detain or remove foreigners who otherwise would have protections under immigration or criminal laws.

It was last used to justify the detention of Japanese-American civilians during World War II.

The Trump administration said that the men deported were members of the Tren de Aragua gang.

Tren de Aragua originated in an infamously lawless prison in the central state of Aragua and accompanied an exodus of millions of Venezuelans, the overwhelming majority of whom were seeking better living conditions after their nation’s economy came undone during the past decade.

Trump seized on the gang during his campaign to paint misleading pictures of communities that he contended were “taken over” by what were actually a handful of lawbreakers.

The Trump administration has not identified the immigrants deported, provided any evidence they are in fact members of Tren de Aragua or that they committed any crimes in the United States.

It also sent two top members of the Salvadoran MS-13 gang to El Salvador who had been arrested in the United States.

“Families we have spoken to have expressed a sense of complete powerlessness in the face of what has happened and their pain at seeing their relatives labelled and handled as violent criminals, even terrorists, without any court judgment as to validity of what is claimed against them,” Throssel said.

Source: Africanews

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Lifestyle

Israeli cabinet approves plans to capture all of the Gaza Strip

Maravi Post Reporter

More hardship in store for the embattled population of Gaza as the Israeli cabinet on Monday approved plans to capture the entire Palestinian enclave and stay there for an unspecified amount of time.

It also calls for hundreds of thousands of people to move to Gaza’s south and would see Israel take over aid deliveries to the devastated territory.

A spokesperson for United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says he’s “alarmed” by the Israeli decision.

Israel’s army spokesperson, Brigadier General Effie Defrin, said the objective of the operation is to “return our hostages, topple and subdue the Hamas regime”.

“These two goals are intertwined. The operation will include a broad offensive that includes moving a majority of Gaza’s population to protect it in a sterile area from Hamas,” he said.

This would likely amount to their forcible displacement and exacerbate an already dire humanitarian crisis in the enclave.

Defrin added that the operation would include “continued airstrikes, the elimination of terrorists, and the dismantling of infrastructure”.

Details of the plan were not formally announced, and its exact timing and implementation were not clear.

Its approval came hours after the Israeli military chief said the army was calling up tens of thousands of reserve soldiers.

An defence official said the operation would not begin until after US President Donald Trump wraps up his expected visit to the Middle East this month.

The announcement has angered the families of the remaining Israeli hostages held in Gaza, who fear that any extension of the conflict will endanger their loved ones.

Hundreds of people gathered outside the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem on Monday to protest against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government, calling for a deal to release the captives.

Israel says 59 hostages remain in Gaza, although about 35 of them are believed to be dead.

Since Israel ended a ceasefire with the Hamas militant group in mid-March, it has unleashed fierce strikes on the territory that have killed hundreds.

It has captured swathes of territory and now controls roughly 50 per cent of the enclave.

The war began when Hamas-led militants attacked southern Israel, killing 1,200 people and taking about 250 hostages.

Israel’s offensive has displaced more than 90 per cent of Gaza’s population. Palestinian health officials say more than 52,000 people there have been killed, many of them women and children.

The officials do not distinguish between combatants and civilians in their count.

Source: Africanews

https://video.euronews.com/mp4/ED/14/06/82/01/ED_PYR_1406821_20250505181909.mp4
Lifestyle

Bomb Blast Kills 26 in Northeast Nigeria

Maravi Post Reporter

Improvised explosive devices detonated on a road in northeastern Nigeria killing at least 26 people in several vehicles, including women and children, police said Tuesday. An Islamic State group affiliate in the West African country claimed responsibility for the Monday attack.

The blasts happened on a busy road connecting the towns of Rann and Gamboru in Borno state, near the border with Cameroon, Nigerian police spokesperson Nahum Daso told The Associated Press. Multiple explosives planted along the route ripped into several civilian commercial vehicles coming from Rann, killing at least 26 people, he said.

Most of those killed were local farmers and traders crowded in a Toyota pick up van that drove over a land mine, Daso said. He said the mine was buried by suspected militants from the Islamic State affiliate known as IS West Africa Province. Besides the dead, at least three people were injured and were taken to nearby medical facilities for treatment. Security forces have since secured the area and begun clearance operations.

Abba Modu, a member of the Civilian Joint Task Force, a vigilante group that supports the military in the fight against Islamic militants, said the explosives may have been intended for security operatives who regularly patrol the highway. “Terrorists often plant IEDs in craters or under sand on severely damaged sections of roads, typically targeting soldiers,” Modu said.

The Islamic State West Africa Province, also known as ISWAP, claimed responsibility for the attack in a statement on Telegram on Tuesday. The IS-linked group is an offshoot of Boko Haram, Nigeria’s homegrown jihadis who took up arms in 2009 to fight Western education and impose their radical version of Islamic law. In 2016, ISWAP broke away from Boko Haram following a dispute over leadership and the strategy of attacking civilian targets such as mosques and marketplaces. The conflict between Nigeria and Islamic extremists is Africa’s longest struggle with militancy.

It has spilled into Nigeria’s northern neighbours Chad, Niger and Cameroon, and has left some 35,000 civilians dead and more than 2 million displaced, according to the U.N. Nigeria’s northeastern region has been particularly hard hit by Islamic militant violence. Earlier this month, a roadside bomb suspected to have been planted by Islamic extremists in northeastern Nigeria struck a passenger bus and killed eight people. On Tuesday, the Nigerian military appointed a new commander, Maj. Gen. Abdulsalam Abubakar, in the fight against Boko Haram and the Islamic State West Africa Province insurgencies in the northeast, the spokesperson for the operation said in a statement.

Source: Africanews

https://video.euronews.com/mp4/ED/13/60/43/05/ED_PYR_1360435_20250429191821.mp4
Lifestyle

Tensions mount in Burkina Faso a week after the coup attempt

Maravi Post Reporter

A week after an attempted coup in Burkina Faso, the situation remains tense in Ouagadougou, particularly among the armed forces.

Local media indicate that a meeting scheduled on April 22 at the headquarters of the general staff, which was supposed to include several army officers, was postponed and then later cancelled as the invited officers failed to show up.

According to Radio France Internationale RFI, an influx of people was seen flocking to the Mogho Naaba palace, a traditional authority in Burkina Faso. Among those seen were army personnel and families of missing civilians, further signaling tension within the West African country.

A cabinet meeting also took place on April 24 at the presidential palace under high security, with sniffer dogs and helicopters seen flying around the area during the meeting.

Some military camps were also placed under high supervision. Military vehicles were seen placed at the entrance of the General Baba Sy military camp in the southern part of the capital.

The government of Captain Ibrahim Traore has now called for massive demonstrations on April 30 in support of the regime. Their main objective is to condemn “Western interference,” especially after recent accusations by U.S. General Michael Langley of diverting the country’s gold reserves to support its own security.

Burkina Faso’s military government said on April 22 that it had foiled a “major plot” to overthrow the country’s junta leader, Captain Ibrahim Traoré.  

The military government first gained knowledge of the plot when it intercepted communications between a high-ranking Burkinabé military officer and terrorist leaders.

Security Minister Mahamadou Sana said on state television that plotters included current and former soldiers, as well as terrorists. He cited Captain René David Ouédraogo as one of the soldiers who rallied to the plan. Ouédraogo is currently on the run.

The coup attempt aimed to “sow total chaos, and place the country under the supervision of an international organisation”, Sana said. Plotters had planned to swarm the presidential palace on 16 April 2025. 

Burkina Faso, along with its neighbors Niger and Mali, has for over a decade battled an insurgency fought by jihadi groups, including some allied with al-Qaida and the Islamic State group.

Following military coups in all three nations in recent years, the ruling juntas have expelled French forces and turned to Russia’s mercenary units for security assistance. The three countries have vowed to strengthen their cooperation by establishing a new security alliance, the Alliance of Sahel States.

But the security situation in the Sahel, a vast region on the fringes of the Sahara Desert, has significantly worsened since the junta took power, analysts say, with a record number of attacks and civilians killed both by Islamic militants and government forces.

Source: Africanews

Regional

Ghana: Security officers flee as terrorist activities in Burkina Faso spillover

Maravi Post Reporter

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Some security officers in Ghana have reportedly fled their border posts due to a spillover of terrorist activities from Burkina Faso.

One of the border communities which has experienced a spillover of terrorists’ activities is Sapeliga in the Bawku West District of the Upper East Region.

Local media reports that the situation has compelled unarmed security personnel to seek safe haven elsewhere.

Deputy Superintendent of Immigration (DSI), Martin Tioseh Soyeh, the Upper East Regional Public Affairs Officer, Ghana Immigration Service (GIS), told the Ghana News Agency that Burkina Faso nationals living along the border on the Bawku enclave continue to suffer attacks.

Many people have been forced to flee into Ghana, in order to escape the attacks, however, the terrorists pursued them into the country, Soyeh said.

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He said the Immigration officers stationed at the place at the time were not armed and could not defend themselves against the armed terrorists and therefore took to their heels.

“Last month, the terrorists stormed the Sapeliga market in pursuit of their targets and our officers had to flee because they were not well armed.

“We have an operation in the Bawku sector but that was not their area as at that time, so those few officers, who were unarmed just managing human traffic and had to also take to their heels since they could not withstand those attackers who were having guns,” he stated.

Currently, over 1,000 Burkina Faso nationals are seeking asylum in the Bawku enclave and many more are trooping into the country after the recent attacks in which two people were killed.

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p dir=”auto”>The refugees are spread across Sapeliga community in the Bawku West District, Bansi community in the Binduri District and Djantiga community in the Bawku Municipality.

Within a space of a month, two major attacks were recorded near Ghana borders, including Dakola, close to the Paga border where one person was shot dead and the Bawku sector where the two were also killed.

According to the Public Affairs Officer, the two who were killed were part of six selected persons trained for 21 days and given weapons by authorities in Burkina Faso as watchdogs to protect the border communities against terrorists’ attacks.

“The information we have gathered is that the remaining four had returned the guns back to the security services in Burkina Faso and have since run into Ghana and are currently in Kumasi,” he added.

To combat further spillover, he said, the Immigration Service was collaborating effectively with the Military and had mounted sandbags at the borders and added that snap check patrols had also been launched to ensure that communities along the borders were protected against further intrusion.

DSI Soyeh said the porous nature of the country’s borders and the many unapproved routes along Ghana’s borders had been a big challenge in combating crime in the region and urged residents living along the borders to report to the security agencies any suspected characters in their communities.

He also warned landlords to do diligent background checks before renting their houses out to people, especially foreigners.

Meanwhile, Mr Stephen Yakubu, the Upper East Regional Minister, has paid a visit to the communities where the refugees are being kept and donated 10 bags of rice and five cartoons of cooking oils to them.

He advised them against indulging in activities that would destabilize the peace in the communities and jeopardise their stay in Ghana.

The refugees usually travel back to their communities in Burkina Faso during the day to engage in socioeconomic activities, including farming and trading, and return to Ghana at night to sleep.

Over 7,000 Nigerian refugees flee to Niger

Source: Africafeeds.com

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Ghana on high alert over reported movement of suspected terrorists

Maravi Post Reporter
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Security agencies in Ghana have been placed on high alert following the reported movement of some suspected terrorists into the West African country.

The country’s Ministry of National Security has notified the Ghana Armed Forces and the Ghana Police Service of suspicious movement of some group of persons at Garu, Bunpurugu and Nanpanduri in the North East Region.

In a letter the Ministry of National Security indicated that the suspicious persons are operating in the Northern part of Ghana.

“Intelligence gathered indicated suspicious movement if a group of persons along a mountainous area that borders Bunkpurugu/ Nanpanduri District in the North East Region and Garu in the Upper East Region,” the National Security Coordinator, Amb. Maj-Gen. Francis Adu-Amanfoh rtd disclosed in notice dated June 3, 2022.

The Ministry had earlier warned Ghanaians especially churches and religious bodies to put in place adequate security measures.

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According to the Ministry, these measures should include installation of Closed-Circuit Televisions (CCTVs) and report suspicious characters to the relevant security agencies.

“In view of the growing threats of terrorism from the sub-region and the expansionist drive of terrorist groups towards Coastal West African states, with a renewed modus operandi of targeting public gatherings including places of worship, it is imperative that pre-cautional measures are taken by all stakeholders,” a statement issued on Friday May 13 said.

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Source: Africafeeds.com

Source: Africa Feeds

Regional

At least 50 worshippers in Nigeria killed by gunmen

Maravi Post Reporter
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Gunmen on Sunday stormed a catholic church in Nigeria’s Ondo state killing at least 50 people and injuring several others.

Local media reported that the attack on the worshippers took place during a mass service.

They had fired at worshippers and detonated explosives at the church. Those killed included women and children.

The identity and motive of the attackers was not immediately clear. Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari condemned the attack, calling it “heinous”.

Ondo state governor Arakunrin Oluwarotimi Akeredolu is said to have cut short a trip to the capital Abuja and returned to Ondo after the attack.

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“We shall commit every available resource to hunt down these assailants and make them pay,” he said in a statement.

Reuters reported that a doctor at a hospital in Owo, a town in the state in Nigeria’s southwest, said not less than 50 bodies had been moved to other health facilities.

Such attacks by gunmen are rare in southwestern Nigeria. The country though continues to witness attacks and kidnappings for ransom by armed gangs, mostly in its northwest.

Protests erupt in Ghana after social media activist was beaten to death

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Source: Africafeeds.com

Source: Africa Feeds