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NEW YORK (AP) — Guards on Jeffrey Epstein’s unit were working extreme overtime shifts to make up for staffing shortages the morning of his apparent suicide, a person familiar with the jail’s operations told The Associated Press.

The person said that the Metropolitan Correctional Center’s Special Housing Unit was staffed with one guard working a fifth straight day of overtime and another who was working mandatory overtime. The person wasn’t authorized to discuss jail operations publicly and spoke Sunday on the condition of anonymity.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — When Michelle Otero arrived at an art show featuring Mexican-American women, the first thing she did was scan the room. Two exits. One security guard.

Then she thought to herself: If a shooter bursts in, how do my husband and I get out of here alive?

Otero, who is Mexican-American and Albuquerque’s poet laureate, had questioned even attending the crowded event at the National Hispanic Cultural Center a day after 22 people were killed in a shooting at an El Paso, Texas, Walmart.

NEW YORK, Aug 11 (APP): Reaffirming Pakistan’s intention to take the case of India’s ‘illegal’ annexation of occupied Kashmir to the UN Security Council, Ambassador Maleeha Lodhi has said that her government was prepared to use any diplomatic and political option to secure justice for the oppressed Kashmiri people.

UN, August 11. /TASS/: The most dangerous scenario is implemented in Libya because of growing terrorist activity there, Russia’s acting Permanent Representative to the UN Dmitry Polyansky said at the extraordinary meeting of the UN Security Council on the situation in Libya.

Three UN staff members died and two more were injured as a result of the automobile explosion in Libya’s Benghazi.

11 August 2019; DW: The apparent suicide of disgraced US financier Jeffrey Epstein has fueled much speculation online. US President Donald Trump is among those to get on the conspiracy-theory bandwagon.

Speculation surrounding Saturday's death of convicted sex offender and billionaire Jeffrey Epstein in an apparent suicide in a US federal prison was rife on Sunday, with Epstein's ties to famous and powerful people fueling a number of conspiracy theories.

EL PASO, Texas (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rouke on Saturday joined a march in the Texas border city of El Paso to condemn last week’s mass shooting there, telling the crowd that President Donald Trump was partly responsible for the hatred that inspired it.

The gunman, identified by authorities as 21-year-old Patrick Crusius, killed 22 people, most of them Hispanic, when he opened fire at a Walmart store last Saturday.

HAVANA, Aug. 10 (Xinhua) -- Cuba's President Miguel Diaz-Canel on Saturday expressed support to Venezuela after the imposition of new U.S. economic sanctions.

"The Venezuelan people's dignity and the strength of the Bolivarian Revolution can't be broken by criminal, imperialist sanctions," Diaz-Canel wrote on his Twitter account.

UNITED NATIONS, Aug. 10 (Xinhua) -- United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has warned that youth today are facing a learning crisis, noting that they should learn how to learn.

"We are facing a learning crisis. Too often, schools are not equipping young people with the skills they need to navigate the technological revolution," the UN chief said in his message for the International Youth Day, to be observed on Aug. 12.

"Students need not just to learn, but to learn how to learn," he noted.

10 Aug 2019; MEMO: Jeffrey Epstein, the US financier facing federal sex trafficking charges, committed suicide yesterday night in his lower Manhattan jail cell, reported by Reuters.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The second season of an AMC-TV drama series follows the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II and a number of bizarre deaths haunting a community.

“The Terror: Infamy” is set to premiere Monday and stars Derek Mio and original “Star Trek” cast member George Takei as they navigate the forced internment and supernatural spirits that surround them.