The number of US people initially applying for unemployment aid last week surged due to the effects of superstorm Sandy, the US Labor Department reported Thursday.
The UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday highlighted the challenges and lessons learned by the world's body from Hurricane Sandy.
New York City will introduce a gas rationing policy starting Friday in the face of frustrating fuel shortages across the city.
The UN World Food Program (WFP) on Tuesday announced that it was sending an emergency aid package to help victims of Hurricane Sandy in Cuba's hard-hit eastern region.
A housing crisis loomed as victims of superstorm Sandy struggled without heat in near-freezing temperatures on Sunday and nearly 1 million people in neighboring New Jersey remained without power.
Fuel flowed toward disaster victims on Saturday and the lower Manhattan skyline lit up for the first time since superstorm Sandy slammed into the US Northeast, while people in devastated coastal areas endured more hardship.
Workers in New York City and nearby towns raced to fix damaged power grids and disrupted transit systems after Sandy left a swath of destruction across 15 US states and cut power to more than 8 million people.
Deaths in the United States and Canada rose to at least 97 on Thursday after more fatalities were reported in New York City, New Jersey and elsewhere.
With superstorm Sandy dissipating, US President Barack Obama and his Republican challenger Mitt Romney are on Thursday back on the campaign trail.
US President Barack Obama on Wednesday promised quick and continued federal help for Americans affected by Hurricane Sandy, as he toured the state of New Jersey to inspect firsthand the damage caused by the superstorm.
Sandy, the massive storm that tore through the US East Coast, is being blamed at this time for the deaths of 64 people.
Massive storm Sandy could slow growth in the already weak US economy to as little as 1% in the fourth quarter.
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