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🗓️ 10 October 2025
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Mohammed bin Salman, Saudi Arabia’s crown prince, is a huge video-game fan. Now his hobby is becoming a multi-billion-dollar industry for the kingdom, which is acquiring some of the world’s biggest gaming firms. How Finnish icebreakers became a focus for polar power politics. And the NBA plays its first basketball game on Chinese soil in six years.
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| 0:00.0 | Claire worked in the marketing department for an up-and-coming artisan bakery. |
| 0:05.0 | Unfortunately, the artisan bakery in question was so up-and-coming. |
| 0:10.0 | Nobody actually knew it existed. |
| 0:13.0 | But then she had the really good idea to use Canva to create a business plan. |
| 0:18.0 | It looked good, really, really good. Their investors thought so too. |
| 0:23.7 | And now their hotcakes are selling like, well, exactly. Thanks, Canber. |
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| 1:00.7 | The Economist. |
| 1:07.9 | Hello and welcome to the intelligence from The Economist. |
| 1:11.6 | I'm your host, Rosie Bloor. |
| 1:13.6 | Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 1:21.9 | Given its location, it's pretty obvious why Finland has carved out a niche in designing and building icebreakers. |
| 1:28.3 | But as competition for the Arctic grows, so does demand for these ships. |
| 1:32.5 | It's no joke. |
| 1:35.0 | And in 2019, a star basketball player wrote a tweet that annoyed the Chinese Communist Party. |
| 1:41.5 | The result was that the entire league was banned from China. Tonight, for the |
| 1:46.3 | first time in six years, an NBA game is finally being played on Chinese soil again. |
| 1:59.4 | First up, though... In 1983, a small team published a series of groundbreaking video games, including |
| 2:15.3 | Arcon, The Light and the Dark, a combat game that's a bit |
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