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Stories for March 23rd 2020

• Monday, March 23rd 2020 - 10:54 UTC

  Postponement of Tokyo Olympics imminent after Canada, Australia withdrawal

  

  Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe admitted Monday that the 2020 Olympic Games may not go as planned due to the Covid-19 pandemic crisis, it was reported.

• Monday, March 23rd 2020 - 07:49 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez is back in Buenos Aires from Cuba with her daughter

  

  Argentine vice president Cristina Fernandez is back in Buenos Aires from Cuba with her daughter who has been under medical treatment in Havana for a year. The two immediately left for their home where they will comply with the mandatory fourteen day self isolation for any passengers arriving in Argentina from overseas because of the coronavirus pandemic.

• Monday, March 23rd 2020 - 07:00 UTC

  Gibraltar creates a specific Covid 19 special fund of up to £500 million

  

  The Gibraltar government could borrow up to 500 million pounds for Coronavirus aid if the community requires it in the coming months. This news came before parliament unanimously passed the emergency budget bill which will help cushion the negative economic effects the virus will have on the peninsula.

• Monday, March 23rd 2020 - 06:43 UTC

  World Water Day, everyone has a role to play, Antonio Guterres

  

  The world’s water resources are under unprecedented threat. Today, some 2.2 billion people lack safe drinking water and 4.2 billion people live without access to adequate sanitation. Unless we act with urgency, the impacts of climate change are projected to exacerbate these figures. By 2050, between 3.5 and 4.4 billion people will live with limited access to water, with more than 1 billion of them living in cities.

• Monday, March 23rd 2020 - 06:36 UTC

  On World Water Day, UN launches flagship report on climate change

  

  On World Water Day, the United Nations launched a flagship report which says that reducing both the impacts and drivers of climate change will require major shifts in the way we use and reuse the Earth’s limited water resources.