Houseboat owners say they would be happy to get permits, but the government stopped renewing them two years ago. The story is that the boats don't have permits, and so they might be unsafe en the government wants to remove them for public safety. And the government sees this as a piece of prime real estate, of course, right along the banks of the nile. That gets at a bigger trend in egypt. It has done lots of construction up and down the country.
The race to succeed Boris Johnson begins today. Numerous Conservative MPs have thrown their proverbial hats into the ring; they are fighting on ground largely staked out by Mr Johnson. American anti-abortion activists believe that fetuses should have all the rights that people do. And why Egypt’s government has turned against its historic houseboats.
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