Hello. Dozens of companies — including some of the world’s biggest — are profiting from Israel’s war on Gaza and its expanding illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank, according to a new report issued by United Nations Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese. We look at the companies named, including Microsoft, Amazon and Google’s parent company, Alphabet Inc. Separately, the United States Senate narrowly passed President Donald Trump’s massive tax break and spending bill. As the House of Representatives prepares to examine this revised bill, we decode what it means, the individuals and groups that the bill will benefit, and those it could hurt. The past week also marked 50 years since independent India’s closest brush with dictatorship, after then-Prime Minister Indira Gandhi imposed a state of national emergency in 1975. Among the excesses of that period, more than eight million men were forcibly sterilised before the emergency was lifted in 1977. We visit one village where men were picked up in the dead of night for forced vasectomies, and where scars from that harrowing time still linger. |
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| | Several US giants are among the companies aiding Israel. European, Chinese and Mexican firms are implicated, too. |
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| | The richest families with children, some carmakers, will gain; EV makers, and those on food stamps and Medicaid will lose. |
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| | The imposition of a state of national emergency on June 25, 1975, was India's closest brush with dictatorship. |
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| | US tech firms faced about $2bn in taxes. But Canada walked back the tax following Trump’s threat. |
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| | Trump made no pledge of assistance to Ukraine at the NATO summit, but said he’d 'try' and sell Patriot interceptors. |
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