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What Saudi Arabia wants with EA video games
In the Spotlight The kingdom’s latest investment in gaming is another win for its ‘soft power’ portfolio
By Will Barker, The Week UK Published
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How the One Piece manga flag became a Gen Z resistance symbol
The Explainer Straw-hat skull seen at protests in Indonesia, Nepal and France shows how young people are ‘reshaping the vocabulary of dissent’
By The Week UK Published
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Dive into Palau’s underwater wonderland
The Week Recommends A luxury Four Seasons catamaran is the ideal jumping-off point for the reefs, wrecks and coral islands of this unspoilt archipelago
By Holden Frith, The Week UK Published