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Iran Confirms Arrest of Italian Journalist Cecilia Sala

People hold placards while attending a peaceful sit-in in front of the Prefecture to demand the immediate release of the Italian journalist Cecilia Sala in Turin, Italy, 29 December 2024. EPA/JESSICA PASQUALON
People hold placards while attending a peaceful sit-in in front of the Prefecture to demand the immediate release of the Italian journalist Cecilia Sala in Turin, Italy, 29 December 2024. EPA/JESSICA PASQUALON
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Iran Confirms Arrest of Italian Journalist Cecilia Sala

People hold placards while attending a peaceful sit-in in front of the Prefecture to demand the immediate release of the Italian journalist Cecilia Sala in Turin, Italy, 29 December 2024. EPA/JESSICA PASQUALON
People hold placards while attending a peaceful sit-in in front of the Prefecture to demand the immediate release of the Italian journalist Cecilia Sala in Turin, Italy, 29 December 2024. EPA/JESSICA PASQUALON

Iran's Ministry of Culture confirmed the arrest of Italian journalist Cecilia Sala for "violating the laws” of the country, Iran's official IRNA news agency reported on Monday.
Cecilia Sala, 29, who works for the newspaper Il Foglio and the podcast company Chora Media, was detained in Tehran on Dec. 19, according to the Italian foreign ministry.

The case of the Italian journalist is "complicated,” but Rome hopes to bring Sala home quickly, Italy's foreign minister, Antonio Tajani, said on Saturday.

Tajani said he hoped the issue could be resolved quickly but added: "It doesn't depend on us."

"We're trying to solve an issue that's complicated," he was quoted as saying by the news agency ANSA.

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Trump Says He Spoke to Putin About Ukraine, Iran

US President Donald Trump speaks during a swearing-in ceremony for the new US ambassador to China, former US Senator David Perdue, at the White House in Washington, DC, US, May 7, 2025. (Reuters)
US President Donald Trump speaks during a swearing-in ceremony for the new US ambassador to China, former US Senator David Perdue, at the White House in Washington, DC, US, May 7, 2025. (Reuters)
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Trump Says He Spoke to Putin About Ukraine, Iran

US President Donald Trump speaks during a swearing-in ceremony for the new US ambassador to China, former US Senator David Perdue, at the White House in Washington, DC, US, May 7, 2025. (Reuters)
US President Donald Trump speaks during a swearing-in ceremony for the new US ambassador to China, former US Senator David Perdue, at the White House in Washington, DC, US, May 7, 2025. (Reuters)

US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that he discussed the recent drone attacks by Ukraine on Russia and developments concerning Iran in a telephone conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

During the conversation, Putin told Trump that Russia will have to respond to the Ukrainian drone attacks, the US president said.

"It was a good conversation, but not a conversation that will lead to immediate Peace," he said in a Truth Social Post.

"I stated to President Putin that Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon and, on this, I believe that we were in agreement."