International divisions emerged on Tuesday ahead of a U.N. Security Council meeting on a worsening refugee crisis in Myanmar, with China voicing support for a military crackdown that has been criticized by the U.S., slammed as "ethnic cleansing" and forced 370,000 Rohingya to flee the violence.

More than half the world's refugee children -- some 3.5 million altogether -- do not attend school, the UN refugee agency said Tuesday, urging greater and steadier funding for their education.

Thousands of Rohingya Muslim refugees who fled violence in Myanmar in search of refuge could be forced to make their new homes on a barren Bangladeshi island that floods every year.

Pope Francis appealed to the United Nations on Monday to help Venezuela end a deadly economic, political and social crisis.

At least 10 people were killed as Hurricane Irma ripped through Cuba over the weekend, the country's civil defense organization said Monday.

"The unfortunate loss of 10 human lives has been reported so far," in several parts of the island, including Havana, the agency said in a statement. 

The U.N. atomic watchdog hit back Monday at U.S. criticism of the Iran nuclear deal, insisting its inspections there are the world's toughest and that Tehran is sticking to the accord.

U.S. President Donald Trump observed a moment of silence Monday at a White House ceremony marking the 16th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people.

Gunmen killed four male members of a family belonging to a minority Shiite community in Pakistan's Balochistan province, police said, in the latest bout of sectarian violence to rock the restive region.

Sen. John McCain says battling brain cancer is a challenge but that his prognosis is "pretty good."

Speaking in his first nationally televised interview since his diagnosis, McCain acknowledged the situation has been tough on his family but says he is optimistic. He says he has "faced other challenges" and he's "very confident about getting through this as well."

A media advocacy group accused Turkey's president of trying to silence the country's main opposition newspaper and free press as the second hearing of a trial against staff members of the paper began Monday.

Christophe Deloire, the secretary general of Reporters Without Borders, called the case against Turkey's pro-secular Cumhuriyet newspaper "a mockery of justice."