<h1>International incidents trigger FARA scrutiny, sanctions and trade enforcement, defense cooperation, protest policing, speech bans, infrastructure liability</h1> A series of international developments raise legal and regulatory issues: a lobbyist retained by a government met the US president and administration officials, implicating lobbying disclosure and foreign agent rules; a senior US trade adviser criticized a country's continued purchases of Russian oil, touching on sanctions and trade law enforcement; a bilateral military exercise began, implicating status-of-forces and defense cooperation agreements; large-scale protest arrests in London prompted policing and public-order scrutiny; a government's ban on unregistered social media platforms raises free speech and communications-regulation challenges; fatal flood-rescue capsizing raises liability and safety-regulation concerns; undersea cable cuts disrupted cross-border internet, implicating critical infrastructure protection.