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The Latest: On July 31 President Cyril Ramaphosa announced a decision to push ahead with a constitutional amendment allowing for the expropriation of land without compensation in South Africa. This followed a two day meeting of the ruling ANC's top decision making body, the National Executive Committee. According to his statement, it had become

Key View: Whilst existing Crohn's disease treatments are immunosuppressive, RedHill Biopharma's RHB-104 drug candidate is the first to attempt to target what the firm and others believe is the underlying cause of the disease: Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis (MAP) infection. These Phase III results will encourage RedHill that it is

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• We forecast installed solar power capacity in France to more than triple between 2017 and 2027.
• Strong government support registered for the sector, ambitious long-term nuclear phase-down plans, and limited scope for conventional thermal power capacity expansion all support out positive outlook for solar power in France.

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Key View: The NATO alliance is likely to remain intact with only minor expansion over the coming decade, as bureaucratic inertia prevents a dramatic reconfiguration of the organisation. Nonetheless, NATO faces downside risks to its cohesion and effectiveness, owing to diverging threat perceptions of its member states, and low levels of defence

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• China will continue to deepen its investment presence in the infrastructure markets of Central and Eastern Europe in service of its broader aim of increasing logistical connectivity throughout Eurasia.
• As such, we expect that China will maintain its investment focus on sectors that encourage cross-border mobility, such as transport

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• Substandard medicines undermine market attractiveness for drugmakers in China.
• Recent vaccine scandal will impact the country's long-held ambition to become a major player in the global pharmaceutical industry.
• Controversy around Chinese medicines further erodes public trust in domestically produced drugs.

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The Chinese

Key View: Colombia's coffee production will continue on its uptrend trajectory as the replanting programme introduced in 2012 continues to yield positive results. Output in 2017/18 will suffer due to adverse weather, before rebounding in 2018/19. Though falling domestic and international prices risk negatively impacting farmers, government support

Key View: The international listing of Saudi Arabia's national oil company Saudi Aramco seems increasingly out of reach, amid negative signals from the government, the lack of transparency over the operations of the company and the recently-announced SABIC deal. While this poses limited risks on the fiscal front, it could send a negative signal to

Key View: LLA's first acquisition has spurred Costa Rica's fixed market leader, Tigo, and incumbent ICE, into improving their own services. However, we maintain that LLA will find success in the market by leveraging its services portfolio and investment capacity into superior services.

Following its spinoff from Liberty Global at the end of 2017

In this article, we analyse presidential, legislative and select regional elections that have taken place across the world over the last 12 months. At the bottom of the article is a summary table with results of all the elections discussed listed in reverse order, with the most recent election first.

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Pakistan - July 25: Preliminary