Dear readers, we are speaking today of things local and things foreign, in an attempt to make the foreign familiar.

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Cecilia Sala, an Italian journalist ... hostages whom Tehran leverages with other countries to swap prisoners and free frozen funds. Ms. Sala feared from the start that she had been taken hostage ...

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Musk eating spaghetti with an Italian flag emoji. Ms. Sala said she understood that Italy’s government did what it had to do to free her. “And whoever it was they needed to talk to ...