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"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.

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

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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.

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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.

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The minister also rejected allegations, repeated by Trump, that government was expropriating land held by white farmers.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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