Seven Italian journalists in Iraq lose contact with offices Fri Mar 28, 4:06 PM ET ROME - Seven Italian journalists in Iraq (news - web sites) fell out of contact with their offices Friday after being stopped at an Iraqi checkpoint in the southern city of Basra, reports said. An Italian state TV reporter said from Kuwait that two of the seven reporters had been arrested by Iraqi authorities, while the fate of the other five was unknown. The seven journalists — who all work for major Italian newspapers, including Milan's Corriere della Sera and Rome's Messaggero — were trying...