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‘All of us ended up in the water’: Victims’ relatives, survivors give emotional accounts of Sapelo Island’s gangway collapse

By Rebekah Riess, CNN (CNN) — Emotional accounts from relatives of the victims and survivors of the partial collapse of a boat dock gangway on Georgia’s Sapelo Island and a newly released video of the frantic rescue efforts paint a dramatic picture of Saturday’s incident. Civil rights attorney Ben Crump, joined by some of the victims’ family members, as

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Washington’s Arab allies engage with Iran as US efforts to stem Middle East violence falter

By Mostafa Salem, CNN Abu Dhabi, UAE (CNN) — Growing unease over the United States’ inability to de-escalate tensions in the Middle East is prompting some of Washington’s closest Arab allies to significantly increase engagement with its primary regional adversary: Iran. Over the past few months, Arab nations have been leveraging their revived relations with

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India and China have struck a deal that could ease border tensions ahead of expected leader meeting

By Simone McCarthy and Aishwarya S Iyer, CNN (CNN) — India and China have reached an agreement on military disengagement along their disputed border, New Delhi said, a step toward reducing frictions between the nuclear-armed neighbors that comes ahead of an expected meeting between the countries’ leaders on the sidelines of a summit in Russia.

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