Following Hurricane Sandy, we assisted more than 30,000 pets in New York and New Jersey, distributing nearly 40 tons of pet supplies to impacted pet owners, and sheltering nearly 280 displaced pets.
Some 300,000 people have been killed and nearly 3m displaced (see article).
The UN said that, in all, there were nearly 925,000 displaced Syrians in the region.
Over all, more than 50 people have been killed, and nearly 70,000 displaced, in the battles during the past week between the military and the rebels, officials said.
Throughout the war's duration, more than 100,000 people had been killed, nearly 1,000,000 displaced, and several billion dollars' worth of damage to property and infrastructure sustained.
$2.2bn needed to provide nearly two million displaced people in Iraq with basic supplies over the next 15 months, according to the UN.
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which moved to temporary offices in Jersey City after its headquarters at the World Trade Center were destroyed, said yesterday that it would split its nearly 2,000 displaced workers between offices in Manhattan and Newark.
The worst floods to hit north-eastern Indian state of Assam since 1998 have left more than 100 people dead and nearly 2m displaced.
Our data indicated that the unlabeled M1 specifically and nearly completely displaced M2 binding at 100-fold excess, whereas an unlabeled M2 competitor oligo did not displace M1 binding even at 1000-fold excess (Fig. 1I and 1J).
In all, the region is now housing nearly 1 million displaced Iraqis.
