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In a recent interview with Chris Van Vliet on his INSIGHT. with Chris Van Vliet Podcast, the mixed martial artist and model was asked about a potential move to WWE, to which she revealed it would be something she would be open to, but only if she could “100 percent” commit to the role. Here is what Paige VanZant had to say: Paige VanZant would go on to say that she has been in contact with WWE and has even had the opportunity to explore the WWE Performance Center - WWE’s official training facility....

Death Stranding is Sony’s second-biggest new IP release this year, of course after Days Gone, which sold 36% more units at the launch compared to Kojima’s game. Hence the game debuted at no 2 in the UK charts this week. Death Stranding is Hideo Kojima’s first title as an independent developer with his newly formed Kojima Productions. The game released to a lot of polarizing feedbacks and reviews from users and critics alike during the game’s launch....

The BBC has reported that “broadband traffic peaked at 18 terabits per second,” and that specifically, this is thanks to the Xbox Series X and Call of Duty. BT, Virgin Media, TalkTalk, Vodafone, City Fibre, and Zen Internet all reported that the broadband was being used to download Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War, Destiny 2, and more. All of this on the day gamers were able to boot up their next-gen Xbox Series X/S....

One UK based group that is not keen on the Pokemon Go phenomenon is the the Essex Police force in Rochford. In a now deleted tweet, the official Twitter account for the police unit took the time to throw shade at the Pokemon Go players starting off their 2021 with some Pokemon hunting. RELATED: The Pokemon Company Breaks Impressive Milestone Thanks to Pokemon GO, More The tweet was spotted by the Southend Standard who shared what the force had to say regarding the influx of players taking to the streets....

Russia and Ukraine had announced the cease-fire would take place in the city from 9 a.m. local time on Saturday, as well as in Volnovakha to the north of Mariupol. But in a post on Telegram, the Mariupol City Council said that the evacuation had been postponed. It said police were using loudspeakers to keep residents up to date with developments as negotiations continued over ensuring a safe humanitarian corridor out of the city....

In a Tweet on Monday, the Ukrainian Defense Ministry shared an image of an Iranian-made Qods Mohajer-6, one of a series of 210 such drones that had been produced in Iran since 2018. If legitimate, the image would appear to contradict longstanding claims from the Iranian government that it has not been supplying Russian invading forces with unmanned aircraft for use in Ukraine, an alleged transgression that had already prompted Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky to all but sever diplomatic relations with the country late last month....

“Does Ukraine want war? No. Is it ready for it? Yes,” Zelensky said during a Tuesday address, according to The New York Times." Our principle is simple: Ukraine does not start a war first, but Ukraine always stands to the last man." Zelensky’s statements come on the eve of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s annual state of the union address Wednesday. During his speech, Zelensky addressed Putin directly, urging him to meet for a peace summit in Donbas, a war-torn region where Ukraine’s military has battled Russian-backed separatists for years....

In a tweet, the Ukrainian Ambassador to the United Nations, Sergiy Kyslytsya, said that the country had reached out to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) for aid in the “repatriation of thousands of bodies of Russian soldiers,” the Times of Israel reported. The ambassador’s tweet also included a chart that reiterated Ukraine’s claim that around 3,500 Russian soldiers have been killed during the invasion, so far....

“Only two days have passed since the beginning of the year, and the number of Iranian drones shot down over Ukraine is already more than 80,” Zelensky said in a presidential address Monday. “This number may increase in the near future. Because these weeks the nights can be quite restless.” Russia’s use of Iranian-made drones, numbering in the hundreds, indicates that the country has been resorting to external assistance as it struggles to achieve progress in the war in Ukraine....

In case you didn’t know… The India star became an assistant manager in RBI, Nagpur, on the same day that the burglary happened. He was given the go ahead by the RBI officials to be appointed on the sports quota, but could not complete the formalities owing to his Team India duties in the Champions Trophy. The incident happened on the same day that his teammate Mohammad Shami allegedly got into a scuffle with goons outside his apartment in Kolkata....

Joe Rogan has upped the ante in his current situation by having Nawaz as his latest podcast guest. Nawaz is a former LBC radio presenter best known for voicing his thoughts on various political issues. He co-founded Quilliam back in 2008, an organization that upholds counter-extremism, especially against Islamism. Like Rogan, Nawaz is also on the spot for tweeting his bold takes on COVID-19. He was one the JRE podcast last week, but Spotify reportedly did not release it immediately....

However, that’s not the case anymore. The former UFC Lightweight Champion will be moving back to the 155 division and his return is going to come in less than two months, according to MMA Junkie. The website reported that Pettis is all set to return to 155 on January 18th and his opponent is none other than Diego Ferreira (16-2 MMA, 7-2 UFC). It’s an interesting match-up to get back in Lightweight mix and Pettis will be expected to pick up the victory....

Per the UFC, UFC Vegas 61 will be closed to the public and media. Media Day and the weigh-ins will be available for media, but fight night will be off-limits. It appears that, for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic started, the UFC’s APEX Center will only feature fighters, their team, and UFC staff. UFC Vegas 61 features a strawweight bout between Mackenzie Dern and Yan Xiaonan. MORE: Everything you need to know for UFC Vegas 61...

The 41-year-old has been hailed as one of the greatest BJJ practitioners to cross over into the sport of MMA. The former Strikeforce middleweight champion scaled great heights in BJJ and mixed martial arts. Over the course of his MMA career, which spanned about 18 years, he competed for multiple notable organizations such as Jungle Fight, Dream, Strikeforce, and the UFC. His final run in the MMA realm came in the UFC organization....

Mobile operators will also not be able to purchase 5G equipment from Huawei after 31 December this year. The UK’s Digital Secretary Oliver Dowden revealed these new details to the House of Commons on Tuesday evening. “This has not been an easy decision, but it is the right one for the UK telecoms networks, for our national security and our economy, both now and indeed in the long run,” Dowden said....

Preliminary results were released late Tuesday by election commissions established under Russian military administration in the four contested eastern and southern regions. The reported results included 99.23% in favor in Donetsk and 98.42% in favor in Luhansk — two regions partially under pro-Moscow separatist control since 2014 — as well as 93.11% in favor in Zaporizhzhia and 87.05% in favor in Kherson, according to Russia’s state-owned RIA Novosti. The results were rejected outright Wednesday by the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry, which referred to the vote as a “propaganda show” in a statement shared with Newsweek....

The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Monday said “measures of covert mobilization to the ranks of the [R]ussian occupying forces are ongoing” on the Russian-occupied peninsula of Crimea. The military officials noted a particular meeting that it claims took place in Simferopol, the second-largest city in Crimea, on Saturday, when, “The main issue of this meeting was the non-fulfillment of the determined quantitative indicators of mobilization....

The MLRS, rocket launchers that are mounted on self-propelled vehicles, were destroyed in the area around Severodonetsk, a strategic city in Eastern Ukraine. The country’s defense ministry shared a video, with the footage attributed to Ukraine’s Special Operations Forces, on Twitter early Monday that showed aerial footage of the Russian MLRS sitting immobile on a stretch of land, and then going up in smoke and flames after being struck....

In a Tuesday tweet, Illia Ponomarenko, a defense reporter with The Kyiv Independent, wrote, “The government now says Russian POWs are going to ‘work to revive Ukraine’s economy’ in full compliance with international law.” Having POWs perform labor does, it seems, comport with international law. In order to fall within “full compliance with international law,” Ukraine will have to follow the 1949 Geneva Conventions, the protocols that set the standards for humanitarian treatment in war....

Former Ukrainian MP Sergey Khlan, who is currently an advisor to the regional governor of Kherson, referred to the High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS) which have allowed Kyiv’s forces to target Russian command centers and ammunition depots. The weapons have been used to target bridges, including those on the approach to Kherson, which Ukraine is trying to reclaim. Khlan said large columns of Russian equipment in Crimea are being sent towards “temporarily occupied Kherson....