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It was fuelled by the availability of large tracts of land expropriated by powerful, politically-connected figures and by a flood of Chinese capital.

"The monastery's property is being seized and expropriated. This spiritual beacon of Orthodoxy and Hellenism is now facing an existential threat," he said in a statement.

Now, the Chilean government is going to expropriate some of its land to commemorate Pinochet's victims there.

This is a reference to the US's anger over the law that will give the state the power to expropriate some privately owned land without compensation for owners.

South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa is at the centre of a political firestorm after he approved a law that gives the state the power to expropriate some privately owned land without compensation for owners.