By Brett Samuels and Harper Neidig

 New York City prosecutors on Thursday charged the Trump Organization and its chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg, with various fraud and conspiracy charges.

Weisselberg, who turned himself in earlier Thursday morning, pleaded not guilty to all 15 charges, which include tax fraud, conspiracy, grand larceny and falsifying business records. He and the Trump Organization have denied wrongdoing.

In an indictment that was unsealed Thursday afternoon, prosecutors alleged that Weisselberg helped orchestrate a scheme to compensate himself and “other Trump Organization executives” with unreported income.

According to prosecutors, Weisselberg avoided paying taxes on about $1.7 million in income between 2005 and 2017. The indictment alleges that the Trump Organization had been paying for his rent in a Manhattan apartment, living expenses, a relative’s private school tuition and the lease on a Mercedes.

Former President Trump was not mentioned in the charging documents but prosecutors suggested that executives other than Weisselberg were implicated in the scheme.

Carey Dunne, an attorney in the district attorney’s office, said in court on Thursday that prosecutors found widespread wrongdoing within the company.

“As spelled out in the indictment, this was a fifteen year-long tax fraud scheme, involving off the books payments, which is a type of crime that’s charged against companies and executives all the time,” Dunne said. “Contrary to today’s assertion by the company’s former CEO this is not a ‘standard practice in the business community,’ nor was it the act of a rogue or isolated employee.

“Instead, it was orchestrated by the most senior executives, who were financially benefiting themselves and the company by getting secret pay raises at the expense of state and federal taxpayers.”

Ron Fischetti, an attorney representing the company in the case, scoffed at the prosecutors’ case in a statement issued after the arraignment.

“After years of investigation and the collection of millions of documents and devoting the resources of dozens of prosecutors and outside consultants, this is all they have?” Fischetti said. “The District Attorney is supposed to be apolitical, but everyone knows that the only reason they are proceeding with this case is because it is ‘Trump’. As far as we are concerned, this case is over.”

The Trump Organization in a statement lambasted the prosecutors involved in the case, accusing them of pursuing charges with flimsy evidence because of political motivations.

“Today in New York City, violent crime continues to steadily rise to levels not seen in decades. Subway slashings, gun violence and hate crimes have become an every-day occurrence, with random shootings even happening in the middle of Times Square. Yet, instead of focusing on protecting the people of New York, the District Attorney has instead devoted countless resources for the sole purpose of targeting the former President,” a spokesperson for the company said in a statement.

Trump responded to the news of the charges by calling it a “political witch hunt.”

“The political Witch Hunt by the Radical Left Democrats, with New York now taking over the assignment, continues,” Trump said. “It is dividing our Country like never before!”

Attorneys for Weisselberg did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Weisselberg is the first Trump Organization official to be indicted in the long-running investigations by Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance and New York Attorney General Letitia James into the company’s financial dealings.

The charges come just months after Vance’s office obtained Trump’s tax returns and other financial records following a protracted legal battle that twice reached the Supreme Court.

Weisselberg was led past reporters and broadcast crews in handcuffs at a Manhattan courthouse Thursday as he made his first appearance before a judge.

President Biden, who was in southern Florida to meet with local officials and families of those killed or missing after a condo collapse there, told reporters he knew nothing about the charges given he had been traveling.

“And even if I did, I wouldn’t comment on an ongoing case, if it’s an ongoing case,” he said.

James in a statement called the charges unsealed Thursday “an important marker” in the ongoing investigation into Trump’s business dealings.

The charges are likely to turn up the pressure on Trump, especially if Weisselberg chooses to cooperate with prosecutors in the criminal probe, which the district attorney’s office says is ongoing.

Trump had said little about the case publicly this week as the anticipation built around charges being filed. He issued a lengthy statement on Monday decrying the New York investigations as politically motivated, seeking to muddy the waters ahead of any formal announcement.

Multiple sources in Trump’s orbit said there has been chatter among aides in recent days about the looming announcement of charges, but some were unsure of the seriousness given it would not directly implicate the former president.

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Scientists are warning that climate change is already compounding the extreme heat battering the Pacific Northwest and will do so even more as the planet continues to warm.

Oregon and Washington saw record-setting triple-digit temperatures this week, bringing many aspects of daily life to a grinding halt.

In Portland, a mass transit company canceled service because of melting cables, while highway pavement in the Seattle area buckled in the extreme heat.

Weather experts said that while there are many factors at play in this most recent heat wave, climate change is adding a few extra degrees to an already bad situation.

“This is a highly unusual weather event that we’re dealing with … that’s what we’re having in this case, in which all the factors that tend to make it hot in the Pacific Northwest are all working together,” said Nick Bond, an atmospheric science professor at the University of Washington.

But he added that climate change, which he said had raised temperatures by 2 to 3 degrees Fahrenheit in the region, “certainly has a role here in that our summer temperatures have risen, and they’re going to continue to rise.”

“It’s that much more severe of an event because of that baseline warming,” he told The Hill.

National Weather Service meteorologist Robin Fox told The Hill she’d refrain from attributing any singular weather event to climate change and instead described the Pacific Northwest heat wave as being caused by a “large area of high pressure” that’s bringing “historic heat” to the region.

Some experts said that as the Earth heats up, climate change could have a more dramatic impact on summer heat, posing risks to humans in different ways.

“All the indicators are very clearly that we are entering continually hotter, dryer, riskier summers,” Sarah Myhre, a climate scientist and executive director of the Rowan Institute, told The Hill.

“From a climate change context, the idea that heat extremes are going to become more extreme and more intense” has been known to scientists for decades, she added.

Jane Baldwin, a postdoctoral research scientist at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, added that climate change will affect not only temperatures across the board but also the nature of atypically hot periods.

“We have very clear evidence that as greenhouse gases in the atmosphere increase, the overall temperature warms, but also because of that, heat waves increase in intensity and duration,” Baldwin said.

“Until the event has passed, it’s hard to do the attribution of the event in terms of how much of this event can be attributed to climate change, but I do think it is a harbinger of what is projected to come with global warming,” she added.

The Biden administration has highlighted climate change as among the major crises the U.S. is facing and has said it wants to cut emissions at least in half by 2030 compared to 2005 levels.

Congress will soon determine which of President Biden’s climate measures to include in their infrastructure packages, and federal agencies are expected to take regulatory actions to cut emissions.

Kristie Ebi, a professor of environmental and occupational health sciences at the University of Washington, said the heat wave in the Northwest was unusual but also in line with the trajectory of climate change.

“What we’re seeing today is more extreme, but it certainly is part of what’s expected with the changing climate,” she said.

Seattle has seen record-shattering triple-digit temperatures in recent days, and inland areas such as Spokane, Wash., could see several more days of extreme heat, according to the National Weather Service.

The heat wave comes less than a year after September 2020 registered as the hottest September on record globally. Six of the warmest years on record occurred in the 2010s.

Experts also raised concerns about the human impacts, particularly to those in disadvantaged communities or who are otherwise vulnerable.

“Think about all the vulnerable people: pregnant women, babies, the elderly … anyone who is at risk in society is also going to have compounding impacts from a heat event like this,” Myhre said. “Just like COVID, this is an example of how inequity is exacerbated when disaster happens.”

“This is just the beginning of the heat waves we will see,” Myhre added, warning of “really catastrophic heat-induced events in places that have no infrastructure to protect people.”

“One of the reasons why we are able to navigate the heat waves this year is we currently don’t have any smoke and we’re able to ventilate our houses,” she noted. However, she said, “if we get to a point where we have smoke,” the effects of the heat will be even more acutely felt.

These extreme temperatures are also likely to lead to a wave of health problems for which local health infrastructure may be unprepared, Ebi said.

“Our core body temperature actually only operates within a … narrow range,” she said. “When [the body’s] mechanisms are insufficient, because of chronic disease, for example, and our core body temperature starts to rise, it starts to affect our organ systems.”

As a result, she said, when experts speak of the health risks of temperature spikes, “it’s not just the heat stress, the heat stroke we’re worried about, it’s people who have underlying chronic medical conditions, children and babies, those over the age of 65, people who take drugs that limit the ability of the body to sweat.”

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A rash of cases of a rare “black fungus” infection affecting thousands of critically ill Covid patients in India caused alarm last month. Now scientists are warning that other dangerous or even deadly fungal infections have spawned in critically ill coronavirus patients globally, including in the UK.

Fungi are ubiquitous – in soil, water, air, faeces and human skin. Usually, people’s elaborate, adaptive immune systems are enough of a repellent but when that shield is weakened by disease, congenital conditions or age, they are far more vulnerable to microscopic assailants.

When Covid-19 emerged, doctors found that the best tools in their arsenal to fight the virus were steroids, which happen to be immunosuppressants. Wary of secondary bacterial infections in intensive care units, doctors often gave coronavirus patients broad-spectrum antibiotics as a precaution.

But the combination of lungs battered by Covid, impaired immune systems, and both good and bad bacteria wiped out by antibiotics left critically ill patients exposed to moulds and spores.

“It’s an unfortunate perfect storm for these organisms, and we’re seeing it,” said Dr Tom Chiller, the chief of the Mycotic Diseases Branch at the US-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Even before the pandemic, rates of the rare and lethal “black fungus” mucormycosis infection in India were estimated to be about 70 times higher than in the rest of the world. With Covid, a fresh epidemic germinated, driven in part by liberal steroid use in hospitals and a high proportion of susceptible patients with uncontrolled diabetes.

Scientists now say concerning reports of other fungal infections, caused by pathogens including Aspergillus and Candida auris, have emerged in hospitalised Covid patients. In particular, the common fungal infection aspergillosis, often seen in combination with the flu, has been observed in critically ill Covid patients globally, from the US to the UK, France, Pakistan and India.

A recent meta-review of 19 observational hospitalised Covid patient studies from various countries showed the overall incidence of Covid-associated pulmonary aspergillosis was 13.5% from 1,421 patients, with a range of 2.5% to 35%. Despite the widespread use of antifungals, nearly half of those infected died.

“Essentially, the more damage there is in the lung from a virus, the more likely you are to get a fungal infection,” said Dr Darius Armstrong-James, a clinical senior lecturer in respiratory fungal diseases at Imperial College London. “And the problem with fungal infections is that they’re much more lethal than bacterial infections. They’re difficult to treat, difficult to diagnose and cause a lot more mortality.”

Armstrong-James, who also leads the fungal diseases unit at the Royal Brompton hospital, estimated that roughly 10% to 15% of critically ill Covid patients have caught aspergillosis in hospitals in the UK, based on his own work as a clinician.

Diagnosing aspergillosis is difficult in Covid cases because it involves sampling fluid from the lungs, which is routine in Europe and North America but not elsewhere, said David Denning, a professor of infectious diseases and global health at the University of Manchester.

‘Black fungus’ disease linked to Covid spreads across India

“Some people won’t want to take that fluid, because there’s a risk of the [virus that causes] Covid … getting into the air in the intensive care unit and infecting the people doing the procedure. There’s a reluctance to make a diagnosis.”

“Mucormycosis is very visible … the patients look terrible, they’ve got these black areas on their face, they’re losing their eye … it needs a big-time surgery, it looks dreadful,” he said. “A patient with aspergillosis is just sick on a ventilator, and they’ve already got a bad lung disease with Covid. And if they then die, then it’s all attributed to Covid.”

Given these hurdles, undercounting of aspergillosis cases was “extremely likely”, he added. He said the trend of these infections in hospitalised Covid patients was grave enough to justify administering antifungal treatments prophylactically, as doctors do with antibiotics. Research to assess the feasibility of that approach is ongoing.

According to Chiller, roughly half of those infected with mucormycosis tend to die – and aspergillosis can be just as deadly, especially in intensive care patients with Covid. “The important thing is to think fungus,” he said. “If you don’t think it, you’re not going to diagnose it, you’re not going to treat it, you’re not going to save lives.”

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White House to send ‘surge teams’ to delta variant hot spots

By Nathaniel Weixel

The White House is readying COVID-19 “surge teams” to send to communities with low vaccination rates to help combat the rapidly spreading delta variant of the coronavirus, officials announced Thursday.

The teams will work with local public health authorities to conduct contact tracing, and will distribute supplies as needed or requested by states, such as therapeutics and additional tests.

The teams will also help augment staffing at local vaccination sites.

White House coronavirus coordinator Jeff Zients said the administration will also increase advertisements about the benefits of vaccinations in hot spot communities.

The federal government has relied on teams from agencies including the Department of Health and Human Services and the Federal Emergency Management Authority to help bolster vaccine distribution since Biden took office, with a focus on underserved communities.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Rochelle Walensky warned that the highly contagious delta variant is the most serious risk to unvaccinated communities. She said an estimated 25 percent of all infections nationwide are attributed to the delta variant which was originally found in India.

“Looking across the country we have made incredible progress towards ending the pandemic,” Walensky said. “However, looking state by state and county by county, it is clear that communities where people remain unvaccinated are communities that remain vulnerable.”

Walensky said there are about 1,000 counties in the country that have vaccination coverage of less than 30 percent, primarily in the south, east and Midwest.

“In some of these areas we are already seeing increasing rates of disease. As the delta variant continues to spread across the country, we expect to see increased transmissions in these communities, unless we can vaccinate more people,” Walensky said.

Despite the rise of the delta variant, health officials reiterated that the vaccines authorized for use in the U.S. work and offer protection from severe illness and death.

Officials have urged unvaccinated people to wear masks, especially indoors, but said they have no intention of changing the CDC’s recommendation that vaccinated people do not need masks.

Walensky said initial data from the past six months has shown 99.5 percent of deaths from COVID-19 in a select group of states occurred in unvaccinated people.

“Any suffering or death from COVID-19 is tragic. With vaccines available across the country, the suffering and loss we are now seeing is nearly entirely avoidable,” Walensky said.

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WORLD STATS

Coronavirus Cases:

183,440,159

view by country

Deaths:

3,971,870

Recovered:

167,943,568

#	Country, Other	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths	New Deaths	Total Recovered	New Recovered	Active Cases	Serious, Critical	Tot Cases/ 1M pop	Deaths/ 1M pop	Total Tests	Tests/ 1M pop	Population
	World	183,440,159	+39,046	3,971,870	+727	167,943,568	+33,789	11,524,721	78,589	23,534	509.6
1	USA	34,561,403		620,645		29,052,087		4,888,671	3,868	103,807	1,864	506,604,612	1,521,611	332,939,637
2	India	30,458,251	+4,314	400,312	+41	29,548,302	+12,215	509,637	8,944	21,857	287	414,251,520	297,267	1,393,531,257
3	Brazil	18,622,304		520,189		16,931,272		1,170,843	8,318	86,993	2,430	53,209,627	248,565	214,066,830
4	France	5,777,965		111,111		5,622,727		44,127	1,162	88,324	1,698	93,465,436	1,428,747	65,417,765
5	Russia	5,538,142		135,886		5,017,321		384,935	2,300	37,933	931	150,121,327	1,028,250	145,996,982
6	Turkey	5,430,940		49,774		5,300,504		80,662	706	63,711	584	61,012,512	715,743	85,243,660
7	UK	4,828,463		128,162		4,327,556		372,745	287	70,755	1,878	213,530,473	3,129,022	68,241,931
8	Argentina	4,491,551		94,772		4,092,053		304,726	6,046	98,479	2,078	16,798,807	368,320	45,609,321
9	Colombia	4,269,297		107,137		3,964,074		198,086	8,155	83,022	2,083	20,060,182	390,098	51,423,492
10	Italy	4,260,788		127,587		4,083,843		49,358	229	70,574	2,113	71,771,680	1,188,805	60,372,965
11	Spain	3,821,305		80,883		3,603,584		136,838	584	81,699	1,729	52,691,812	1,126,546	46,772,872
12	Germany	3,736,940		91,530		3,626,800	+1,100	18,610	590	44,460	1,089	63,813,168	759,216	84,051,450
13	Iran	3,218,860		84,389		2,889,939		244,532	3,187	37,840	992	23,308,926	274,016	85,063,982
14	Poland	2,880,010		75,044		2,651,906		153,060	130	76,180	1,985	17,444,955	461,443	37,805,184
15	Mexico	2,525,350	+6,081	233,248	+201	2,003,477	+2,947	288,625	4,798	19,384	1,790	7,530,188	57,799	130,283,076
16	Ukraine	2,236,497	+696	52,424	+33	2,169,584	+1,197	14,489	177	51,448	1,206	10,881,002	250,305	43,470,921
17	Indonesia	2,203,108		58,995		1,890,287		253,826		7,971	213	20,079,271	72,644	276,406,727
18	Peru	2,057,554		192,687		N/A	N/A	N/A	2,346	61,549	5,764	14,224,136	425,499	33,429,296
19	South Africa	1,995,556		61,029		1,754,793		179,734	546	33,230	1,016	13,209,499	219,961	60,053,687
20	Netherlands	1,685,825		17,748		1,634,032		34,045	126	98,169	1,033	14,730,069	857,759	17,172,738
21	Czechia	1,667,608	+164	30,308	+1	1,635,736	+9	1,564	9	155,432	2,825	30,017,226	2,797,811	10,728,825
22	Chile	1,558,557		32,588		1,502,411		23,558	2,943	80,839	1,690	17,012,734	882,410	19,279,850
23	Philippines	1,424,518	+6,192	24,973	+177	1,344,063	+2,212	55,482	1,957	12,830	225	14,988,187	134,987	111,033,906
24	Canada	1,415,310		26,295		1,381,943		7,072	466	37,174	691	36,768,392	965,755	38,072,162
25	Iraq	1,353,458		17,216		1,250,121		86,121	633	32,915	419	11,771,294	286,272	41,119,335
26	Sweden	1,090,553		14,592		1,061,185		14,776	41	107,316	1,436	10,828,578	1,065,584	10,162,103
27	Belgium	1,085,885	+754	25,180	+7	1,036,831		23,874	134	93,289	2,163	15,345,692	1,318,361	11,639,975
28	Romania	1,080,823		33,861		1,045,351		1,611	67	56,560	1,772	9,831,916	514,510	19,109,295
29	Pakistan	959,685	+1,277	22,345	+24	905,430	+1,110	31,910	1,863	4,262	99	14,637,171	65,009	225,157,751
30	Bangladesh	921,559		14,646		820,913		86,000	1,192	5,541	88	6,640,982	39,928	166,325,159
31	Portugal	882,006		17,101		830,224		34,681	113	86,752	1,682	13,332,860	1,311,388	10,166,984
32	Israel	842,218	+151	6,429		833,664	+64	2,125	26	90,309	689	15,154,380	1,624,960	9,326,000
33	Hungary	808,197	+37	29,992		739,561	+357	38,644	22	83,874	3,113	6,145,920	637,820	9,635,828
34	Japan	799,978		14,781		768,328		16,869	517	6,345	117	16,445,549	130,428	126,089,354
35	Malaysia	758,967		5,254		688,260		65,453	917	23,154	160	14,645,806	446,803	32,779,126
36	Jordan	751,937		9,756		735,610		6,571	467	72,974	947	7,892,481	765,954	10,304,118
37	Serbia	716,643		7,047		707,706		1,890	13	82,352	810	4,422,502	508,206	8,702,177
38	Switzerland	703,176		10,894		684,621		7,661	39	80,660	1,250	8,329,750	955,492	8,717,762
39	Austria	650,474		10,706		637,909		1,859	52	71,815	1,182	55,451,224	6,122,010	9,057,682
40	Nepal	640,662		9,145		600,149		31,368		21,602	308	3,351,263	112,996	29,658,170
41	UAE	634,582		1,819		612,998		19,765		63,398	182	58,026,680	5,797,176	10,009,473
42	Lebanon	545,016		7,854		532,776		4,386	54	80,210	1,156	4,731,376	696,315	6,794,877
43	Morocco	532,150		9,298		518,101		4,751	154	14,249	249	6,854,680	183,543	37,346,518
44	Saudi Arabia	489,126		7,832		469,120		12,174	1,389	13,835	222	22,008,712	622,531	35,353,615
45	Ecuador	459,538		21,605		423,688		14,245	421	25,658	1,206	1,550,222	86,557	17,909,788
46	Bolivia	441,286	+1,662	16,822	+55	363,431	+2,505	61,033	200	37,297	1,422	1,838,145	155,359	11,831,617
47	Kazakhstan	428,163	+2,590	4,399	+24	397,826	+1,430	25,938	221	22,534	232	11,575,012	609,195	19,000,508
48	Tunisia	426,879		15,065		356,321		55,493	526	35,746	1,262	1,737,467	145,493	11,941,894
49	Paraguay	424,998		13,017		373,253		38,728	568	58,865	1,803	1,537,487	212,953	7,219,834
50	Greece	423,185		12,691		405,408		5,086	189	40,800	1,224	10,674,006	1,029,104	10,372,134
51	Bulgaria	421,902		18,067		394,930		8,905	163	61,180	2,620	3,206,721	465,005	6,896,105
52	Belarus	418,212		3,153		410,984		4,075		44,273	334	6,813,944	721,341	9,446,217
53	Panama	404,983		6,552		385,671		12,760	84	92,412	1,495	3,012,379	687,384	4,382,382
54	Slovakia	391,659		12,511		378,699		449	26	71,702	2,290	2,964,856	542,787	5,462,284
55	Uruguay	370,600		5,619		350,291		14,690	251	106,319	1,612	2,815,347	807,673	3,485,750
56	Costa Rica	369,540		4,674		294,872		69,994	398	71,888	909	1,489,540	289,765	5,140,503
57	Georgia	368,022	+964	5,335	+8	353,231	+607	9,456		92,433	1,340	5,875,306	1,475,647	3,981,513
58	Croatia	359,975		8,209		351,241		525	13	88,230	2,012	2,153,014	527,707	4,079,940
59	Kuwait	358,511		1,979		337,829		18,703	294	82,731	457	2,992,536	690,565	4,333,458
60	Azerbaijan	336,122		4,975		330,275		872		32,856	486	3,758,131	367,353	10,230,310
61	Dominican Republic	326,193		3,840		267,396		54,957	372	29,772	350	1,717,949	156,799	10,956,361
62	Palestine	314,288		3,565		308,303		2,420	7	60,217	683	1,904,455	364,893	5,219,221
63	Guatemala	296,438		9,282		265,352		21,804	5	16,247	509	1,590,968	87,199	18,245,225
64	Denmark	294,152		2,535		288,476		3,141	12	50,606	436	68,936,564	11,859,915	5,812,568
65	Egypt	281,524		16,194		212,059		53,271	90	2,700	155	2,869,589	27,525	104,254,145
66	Lithuania	278,826	+30	4,387	+1	267,827	+106	6,612	46	103,875	1,634	3,778,147	1,407,531	2,684,237
67	Ethiopia	276,250		4,325		260,737		11,188	142	2,345	37	2,871,470	24,378	117,791,247
68	Venezuela	274,024		3,136		255,256		15,632	356	9,664	111	3,359,014	118,461	28,355,389
69	Ireland	272,784		5,000		257,319		10,465	14	54,636	1,001	4,729,538	947,279	4,992,759
70	Thailand	270,921	+6,087	2,141	+61	214,340	+3,638	54,440	1,971	3,872	31	8,129,670	116,180	69,974,894
71	Oman	270,504		3,140		236,988		30,376	530	51,667	600	1,550,000	296,052	5,235,564
72	Bahrain	265,975		1,353		261,740		2,882	85	151,110	769	5,052,499	2,870,511	1,760,139
73	Honduras	263,376	+616	7,030	+25	92,472	+18	163,874	586	26,177	699	794,990	79,014	10,061,416
74	Sri Lanka	260,972		3,120		227,840		30,012		12,137	145	3,743,577	174,097	21,502,881
75	Slovenia	257,358		4,419		252,368		571	16	123,776	2,125	1,348,941	648,771	2,079,224
76	Moldova	256,816		6,194		249,774		848	53	63,812	1,539	1,266,454	314,679	4,024,591
77	Armenia	225,339	+118	4,518	+1	216,997	+115	3,824		75,903	1,522	1,192,578	401,707	2,968,775
78	Qatar	222,217		591		219,985		1,641	50	79,143	210	2,172,413	773,705	2,807,805
79	Bosnia and Herzegovina	205,032		9,667		183,534		11,831		62,885	2,965	1,032,106	316,558	3,260,404
80	Cuba	193,945		1,302		176,030		16,613	184	17,133	115	5,149,286	454,896	11,319,707
81	Libya	193,905		3,198		178,621		12,086		27,842	459	1,123,702	161,350	6,964,359
82	Kenya	184,537		3,640		126,594		54,303	113	3,358	66	1,963,532	35,734	54,948,318
83	Nigeria	167,692		2,121		164,273		1,298	11	794	10	2,300,266	10,891	211,212,872
84	Myanmar	159,347		3,347		136,992		19,008		2,909	61	2,743,783	50,093	54,773,731
85	S. Korea	158,549	+826	2,024	+3	148,319	+295	8,206	145	3,090	39	10,641,603	207,385	51,313,265
86	Zambia	157,832		2,271		134,419		21,142	1,307	8,353	120	1,885,589	99,794	18,894,728
87	North Macedonia	155,689		5,485		150,063		141	25	74,732	2,633	881,870	423,307	2,083,289
88	Algeria	140,075		3,726		97,380		38,969	28	3,138	83	230,861	5,172	44,638,796
89	Latvia	137,540	+40	2,526	+6	134,062		952	27	73,735	1,354	2,922,757	1,566,896	1,865,317
90	Albania	132,523		2,456		130,014		53	3	46,100	854	809,570	281,623	2,874,657
91	Norway	131,509		794		88,952		41,763	7	24,070	145	6,148,762	1,125,420	5,463,525
92	Estonia	131,123	+39	1,269		127,485	+69	2,369	5	98,780	956	1,532,128	1,154,210	1,327,426
93	Kyrgyzstan	127,880	+1,485	2,019	+10	111,269	+571	14,592	102	19,284	304	1,322,522	199,436	6,631,324
94	Afghanistan	122,156		5,048		71,924		45,184	1,124	3,069	127	617,618	15,518	39,799,449
95	Mongolia	120,339	+2,376	592	+14	81,426	+2,170	38,321	126	36,129	178	3,275,613	983,420	3,330,839
96	Uzbekistan	111,648	+495	742	+2	108,009	+313	2,897	23	3,288	22	1,377,915	40,584	33,952,226
97	Montenegro	100,272		1,613		98,371		288	6	159,632	2,568	452,318	720,085	628,145
98	Finland	95,964		973		46,000		48,991	7	17,293	175	5,442,313	980,717	5,549,318
99	Ghana	95,914		796		93,444		1,674	9	3,024	25	1,276,266	40,238	31,717,705
100	China	91,810	+18	4,636		86,738	+20	436	8	64	3	160,000,000	111,163	1,439,323,776
101	Namibia	91,208		1,556		67,780		21,872	81	35,261	602	532,519	205,870	2,586,682
102	Uganda	81,034		1,061		53,551		26,422	1,081	1,718	22	1,333,486	28,268	47,172,633
103	Cameroon	80,858		1,324		78,224		1,310	152	2,973	49	1,751,774	64,399	27,201,986
104	El Salvador	78,766		2,387		72,572		3,807	54	12,083	366	1,062,066	162,922	6,518,871
105	Mozambique	77,205		884		71,491		4,830	32	2,403	28	600,704	18,699	32,124,155
106	Cyprus	76,333		374		72,681		3,278	18	62,767	308	7,879,677	6,479,321	1,216,127
107	Maldives	73,931		213		70,325		3,393	90	134,416	387	1,018,818	1,852,342	550,016
108	Botswana	71,443		1,158		66,323		3,962	1	29,782	483	1,321,854	551,040	2,398,836
109	Luxembourg	70,895		818		69,726		351	1	111,450	1,286	3,089,693	4,857,137	636,114
110	Singapore	62,599	+10	36		62,234		329	3	10,617	6	13,607,805	2,307,880	5,896,236
111	Cambodia	52,350	+966	660	+32	45,508	+650	6,182		3,089	39	1,371,584	80,922	16,949,415
112	Zimbabwe	51,221		1,808		39,411		10,002	10	3,397	120	669,336	44,390	15,078,374
113	Jamaica	50,166		1,080		30,192		18,894	11	16,868	363	442,078	148,644	2,974,069
114	Ivory Coast	48,378		315		47,862		201		1,790	12	711,845	26,338	27,026,889
115	Senegal	43,268		1,168		41,487		613	11	2,518	68	566,561	32,974	17,181,871
116	Madagascar	42,247		915		40,651		681	45	1,488	32	214,402	7,550	28,397,708
117	DRC	41,353		933		28,422		11,998		448	10	202,242	2,192	92,260,798
118	Rwanda	39,914		448		27,272		12,194	37	3,008	34	1,650,629	124,378	13,271,030
119	Angola	38,965		903		33,271		4,791	11	1,150	27	648,883	19,153	33,879,628
120	Sudan	36,709		2,760		30,543		3,406		818	62	234,414	5,225	44,866,285
121	Malawi	36,359		1,199		33,228		1,932	54	1,853	61	269,547	13,738	19,620,655
122	Trinidad and Tobago	33,029		857		25,229		6,943	22	23,525	610	232,452	165,563	1,404,013
123	Cabo Verde	32,594		287		31,692		615	23	57,996	511	173,898	309,424	562,006
124	Australia	30,684	+40	910		29,358		416	1	1,190	35	20,941,994	811,871	25,794,730
125	Malta	30,627		420		30,161		46		69,180	949	988,157	2,232,029	442,717
126	Réunion	30,583		237		28,585		1,761	32	33,918	263	102,720	113,920	901,686
127	French Guiana	27,628		146		9,995		17,487	40	90,179	477	289,434	944,730	306,367
128	Syria	25,551		1,879		21,831		1,841		1,426	105	103,566	5,778	17,922,861
129	Gabon	25,054		159		24,729		166	9	10,999	70	888,883	390,220	2,277,901
130	Guinea	23,787		172		22,477		1,138	24	1,764	13	468,972	34,774	13,486,279
131	Suriname	21,936		531		17,832		3,573	34	37,062	897	79,936	135,056	591,874
132	Mauritania	20,894		489		19,816		589	16	4,379	102	309,242	64,817	4,770,965
133	Guyana	20,142		473		18,109		1,560	12	25,485	598	189,878	240,249	790,340
134	Mayotte	19,405		174		2,964		16,267	6	69,464	623	176,919	633,319	279,352
135	Eswatini	19,084		678		18,107		299	10	16,281	578	225,813	192,650	1,172,139
136	French Polynesia	19,007		142		18,851		14		67,275	503	26,355	93,282	282,529
137	Haiti	18,665		438		12,865		5,362		1,617	38	89,917	7,791	11,541,031
138	Vietnam	17,902	+326	81		7,247		10,574		182	0.8	8,434,266	85,878	98,211,939
139	Papua New Guinea	17,098		173		16,518		407	7	1,876	19	131,712	14,449	9,115,590
140	Guadeloupe	17,028		230		2,250		14,548	23	42,550	575	226,329	565,551	400,192
141	Seychelles	15,579		68		14,365		1,146		157,435	687	21,504	217,311	98,955
142	Somalia	14,946		775		7,246		6,925		915	47	150,573	9,219	16,333,125
143	Taiwan	14,853		661		11,608		2,584		623	28	2,182,211	91,460	23,859,832
144	Mali	14,428		525		10,062		3,841		693	25	319,984	15,362	20,829,358
145	Togo	13,962		130		13,517		315		1,648	15	364,674	43,047	8,471,463
146	Andorra	13,918		127		13,721		70		179,847	1,641	193,595	2,501,615	77,388
147	Tajikistan	13,523		90		13,318		115		1,387	9			9,750,501
148	Burkina Faso	13,485		168		13,308		9		628	8	196,552	9,154	21,472,005
149	Belize	13,300		329		12,665		306	1	32,855	813	155,629	384,450	404,809
150	Bahamas	12,735		246		11,603		886	3	32,079	620	107,478	270,732	396,991
151	Congo	12,695		166		11,211		1,318		2,246	29	158,304	28,004	5,652,961
152	Martinique	12,374		98		98		12,178	1	33,000	261	200,461	534,600	374,974
153	Curaçao	12,343		126		12,197		20	4	74,914	765	137,600	835,139	164,763
154	Hong Kong	11,928		211		11,631		86	1	1,578	28	16,710,131	2,211,023	7,557,646
155	Djibouti	11,602		155		11,443		4		11,575	155	172,602	172,205	1,002,307
156	Lesotho	11,544	+128	329		6,461	+4	4,754		5,346	152	114,862	53,197	2,159,188
157	Aruba	11,140		107		11,005		28	14	103,899	998	177,500	1,655,490	107,219
158	South Sudan	10,846		117		10,514		215		958	10	174,045	15,369	11,324,505
159	Timor-Leste	9,361	+83	24		8,467	+42	870		6,968	18	93,497	69,596	1,343,420
160	Equatorial Guinea	8,742		122		8,534		86	1	6,035	84	149,330	103,082	1,448,649
161	Benin	8,199		104		8,000		95	5	659	8	604,310	48,584	12,438,382
162	Nicaragua	8,178		191		4,225		3,762		1,220	28			6,703,092
163	CAR	7,141		98		6,859		184	2	1,453	20	54,814	11,156	4,913,322
164	Yemen	6,923		1,361		4,081		1,481	23	227	45	111,430	3,656	30,478,749
165	Iceland	6,654		30		6,600		24	1	19,374	87	778,558	2,266,855	343,453
166	Gambia	6,079		181		5,858		40	3	2,447	73	82,460	33,196	2,484,021
167	Eritrea	6,028		25		5,559		444		1,677	7	23,693	6,590	3,595,307
168	Sierra Leone	5,652		102		3,562		1,988		694	13	156,766	19,263	8,138,263
169	Niger	5,492		193		5,207		92	2	219	8	118,729	4,735	25,073,905
170	Burundi	5,482		8		773		4,701		448	0.7	345,742	28,242	12,241,938
171	Saint Lucia	5,302		84		5,124		94		28,743	455	53,725	291,248	184,465
172	Fiji	5,253	+404	25	+1	970	+52	4,258	21	5,818	28	206,122	228,283	902,925
173	San Marino	5,091		90		5,000		1		149,726	2,647	68,523	2,015,264	34,002
174	Chad	4,951		174		4,769		8		293	10	126,118	7,466	16,893,371
175	Channel Islands	4,448		86		3,994		368		25,350	490	563,229	3,209,995	175,461
176	Gibraltar	4,351		94		4,229		28		129,183	2,791	279,654	8,303,020	33,681
177	Liberia	4,304		129		2,392		1,783	2	832	25	119,695	23,126	5,175,762
178	Barbados	4,082		47		3,999		36		14,187	163	186,328	647,588	287,726
179	Comoros	3,943		146		3,765		32		4,440	164			888,013
180	Guinea-Bissau	3,869		69		3,588		212	4	1,921	34	73,289	36,386	2,014,203
181	Liechtenstein	3,039		59		2,963		17	3	79,478	1,543	49,126	1,284,777	38,237
182	New Zealand	2,742		26		2,685		31		548	5	2,288,871	457,582	5,002,100
183	Sint Maarten	2,618		33		2,547		38	2	60,377	761	28,642	660,547	43,361
184	Monaco	2,580		33		2,521		26	1	65,283	835	54,960	1,390,688	39,520
185	Bermuda	2,514		33		2,466		15	7	40,517	532	320,654	5,167,838	62,048
186	Turks and Caicos	2,425		18		2,398		9	2	61,801	459	94,789	2,415,683	39,239
187	Sao Tome and Principe	2,369		37		2,320		12		10,613	166	14,270	63,932	223,207
188	Saint Martin	2,276		12		1,399		865	7	57,881	305	39,038	992,778	39,322
189	St. Vincent Grenadines	2,229	+2	12		2,023	+17	194	2	20,028	108	55,342	497,268	111,292
190	Laos	2,176	+32	3		1,986		187		295	0.4	289,377	39,207	7,380,691
191	Bhutan	2,104		1		1,811		292		2,697	1	798,573	1,023,712	780,076
192	Mauritius	1,858		18		1,534		306		1,459	14	358,675	281,562	1,273,876
193	Caribbean Netherlands	1,650		17		1,613		20		62,344	642	8,550	323,056	26,466
194	Isle of Man	1,620		29		1,569		22	1	18,951	339	78,217	915,011	85,482
195	Antigua and Barbuda	1,264		42		1,222		0		12,802	425	16,700	169,134	98,738
196	St. Barth	1,005		1		462		542		101,443	101	26,385	2,663,268	9,907
197	Faeroe Islands	778		1		764		13		15,862	20	310,333	6,327,129	49,048
198	Diamond Princess	712		13		699		0
199	Cayman Islands	614		2		603		9		9,234	30	107,819	1,621,558	66,491
200	Tanzania	509		21		183		305	7	8	0.3			61,421,923
201	Saint Kitts and Nevis	457		3		199		255	1	8,530	56	21,423	399,877	53,574
202	Wallis and Futuna	445		7		438		0		40,301	634	20,508	1,857,272	11,042
203	British Virgin Islands	392	+42	1		300		91		12,881	33	56,092	1,843,191	30,432
204	Brunei	261		3		248		10		591	7	141,157	319,608	441,656
205	Dominica	194	+1			191		3		2,688		19,197	266,015	72,165
206	Grenada	161		1		160		0		1,424	9	28,684	253,744	113,043
207	New Caledonia	129				58		71		448		34,704	120,402	288,235
208	Anguilla	109				109		0		7,201		22,201	1,466,671	15,137
209	Falkland Islands	63				63		0		17,598		7,307	2,041,061	3,580
210	Macao	54				51		3		82		4,568	6,941	658,151
211	Greenland	50				50		0	1	879		29,739	522,948	56,868
212	Vatican City	27				27		0		33,624				803
213	Saint Pierre Miquelon	26				26		0		4,509		6,128	1,062,782	5,766
214	Montserrat	20		1		19		0		4,004	200	1,408	281,882	4,995
215	Solomon Islands	20				20		0		28		4,500	6,396	703,611
216	Western Sahara	10		1		8		1		16	2			611,923
217	MS Zaandam	9		2		7		0
218	Vanuatu	4		1		3		0		13	3	23,000	73,184	314,275
219	Marshall Islands	4				4		0		67				59,588
220	Samoa	3				3		0		15				199,729
221	Saint Helena	2				2		0		328				6,095
222	Micronesia	1				1		0		9				116,225
	Total:	183,440,159	+39,046	3,971,870	+727	167,943,568	+33,789	11,524,721	78,589	23,533.7	509.6

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