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It is a scene playing out across America as the crucial Nov. 6 congressional elections edge closer – biting attack ads portraying Republican incumbent politicians as unworthy of re-election. Republicans are not without political ammunition in trying to defend their majorities in Congress.

Plans by South Africa’s government to change the law to allow land expropriation without compensation have provoked an emotional response, even reaching the ears of President Donald Trump, who signaled his disapproval last month in a controversial tweet in which he ordered U.S. officials to investigate the situation.

Emergency officials are urging millions of residents along the southeastern U.S. coast to finish preparations ahead of the onslaught of Hurricane Florence. The storm is expected to make landfall later this week, unleashing damaging winds and life-threatening amounts of rain.

A U.S. pharmaceutical executive is defending his price boost of a key antibiotic by 400 percent to almost $2,400 a bottle as a “moral requirement,” a claim that drew an immediate rebuke from the country’s drug regulatory chief.