<h1>Paid foreign lobbyist met US president amid trade tensions, raising FARA and 18 U.S.C. §951 disclosure and enforcement concerns</h1> A foreign government's paid US lobbyist met the US president and administration officials amid bilateral trade and tariff tensions, raising potential issues under lobbying disclosure and foreign agent statutes; a senior White House trade adviser publicly criticized that government's continued Russian oil purchases, reflecting trade-policy disputes. In the UK, police made over 425 arrests at a protest tied to a recently proscribed group and condemned assaults on officers, implicating public order and terrorism-designation enforcement. Separately, a rescue-boat capsize in Pakistan caused multiple deaths, and undersea cable cuts in the Red Sea disrupted regional internet access, raising questions of maritime safety, liability and infrastructure security.