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A Blow for Obamacare

The US Supreme Court rules that business owners can opt out of providing birth control as part of their health insurance scheme if it is at odds with their religious beliefs.

The US Supreme Court rules that business owners can opt out of providing certain birth control methods as part of their company's health insurance scheme if the contraception is at odds with their religious beliefs. We hear from the left-leaning American Civil Liberties Union and also from the Family Research Council on the religious right.

In our New York bureau, Ben Casselman, chief economics writer at FiveThirtyEight.com, discusses the $8.9bn fine levied against French bank BNP Paribas for flouting US sanctions against countries like Iraq and Cuba. At home in India, Revathy Ashok of the Bangalore Political Action Committee, discusses the global problem of food wastage.

Plus, what happens to a relationship when the woman earns more than the man? Lucy Kellaway of the Financial Times gives us her view.

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Tue 1 Jul 2014 00:06GMT

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