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    South Africa lays out conditions to seize land, says investors will be reassured

    Sun, 11 Oct 2020 18:36 PM

    A draft law would allow land to be confiscated without payment in certain cases if it is unused, abandoned or poses a safety risk

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    India's Modi launches property card scheme to aid rural households

    Sun, 11 Oct 2020 13:43 PM

    Drones will be used to map land parcels and landowners given digital property documents under India's scheme to clarify land ownership

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    'Dramatic' global rise in laws defending rights of nature

    Thu, 1 Oct 2020 08:28 AM

    At least 14 countries have passed such measures in the past dozen years

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    Thai villagers 'reclaim' land after 26-year fight over mine

    Tue, 29 Sep 2020 09:53 AM

    Villagers in the country's northeast say they will oppose any move to renew mining permit for land they will turn into forest

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    New homes, highways boost flood risk on Turkey's northern coast

    Tue, 15 Sep 2020 13:34 PM

    Two recent deadly floods have sparked fresh warnings about unchecked development in the country's Black Sea region

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    INSIGHT-Three years after exodus, Myanmar erases names of Rohingya villages, U.N. map makers follow suit

    Fri, 11 Sep 2020 12:48 PM

    Where Kan Kya once stood there are now government and military buildings, with the site of the destroyed village now nameless and reclassified as part of nearby town Maungdaw

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    In India's flood-prone Assam, hill settlers hold out hope for land titles

    Thu, 3 Sep 2020 07:55 AM

    As floods and erosion uproot more families in Assam, about 300,000 people in the Guwahati hills have no proof of land ownership

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    As Soviet seed blights Armenian farms, reform promises growth

    Tue, 18 Aug 2020 11:14 AM

    As coronavirus bites, Armenia eyes land reform to revitalise abandoned farms

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    Queensland becomes first Australian state to outlaw gay conversion therapy

    Thu, 13 Aug 2020 10:16 AM

    The Australian state of Queensland has outlawed so-called gay conversion therapy, as more regions and nations eye laws

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    Russians to be offered free plots of land amid Arctic push - draft law

    Fri, 17 Jul 2020 10:23 AM

    The legislation would allow Russian Arctic’s residents to acquire up to one hectare of land for free to build a home or use for business

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