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More than thirty people have been killed as tropical storm Sandy battered the US East Coast, home to nearly one-seventh of the country's total population.
熱帶暴風“桑迪”襲擊美國東海岸，造成30余人死亡，受災人數約為全美人口的七分之一。
Economic losses are estimated at between 10-to-20-billion-US-dollars.
預計經濟損失在100億至200億美元之間。
The cost of the clean up is likely to run to 30-40-billion-US-dollars - far less than the 100-billion clean up costs of Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
救災花費可能達到300億至400億美元，遠遠超過2005年卡特里娜颶風的100億美元救災款。
However, US President Barack Obama says Sandy "is not yet over" and the federal government is ready to provide whatever relief is necessary.
但是，美國總統巴拉克·奧巴馬稱，“桑迪還未結束。”，而聯邦政府也已經準備好為災民提供救災必需品。
Obama has also canceled campaign appearances in Ohio on Wednesday and scheduled a trip to New Jersey instead to survey damage caused by the storm.
周三，奧巴馬取消了在俄亥俄州的競選活動，而是前往新澤西州視察災情。
Libya's national congress has delayed the vote on the cabinet line-up submitted by Prime Minister Ali Zaidan, after some protesters stormed the legislature.
利比亞總理阿里•扎伊丹提交了組建內閣的名單，利比亞國民議會因被因示威者圍攻而推遲了投票表決。
Angry people stormed the headquarters of the congress in protest against some of the nominated ministers, leading to the suspension of the voting process.
憤怒的民眾包圍了國民議會總部，抗議某些提名人選，這也導致投票進程被擱置。
Zaidan has nominated 27 members for his cabinet.
扎伊丹為組建自己的內閣提名了27人。
Zaidan stressed his government will be a coalition that includes the two biggest political parties in Libya, namely the National Forces Alliance, and the Justice and Construction Party.
扎伊丹強調稱，他領導的政府將是聯合的政府，提名人選包括利比亞的兩大政黨，全國力量聯盟與正義和建設黨。
President of the national congress Mohammed Maqrif indicated that voting may be postponed till Wednesday.
利比亞國民議會主席穆罕默德麥賈里亞夫表示，投票可能會推遲至周三繼續進行。
