<h1>Global developments raise legal questions on free speech, media rules, export controls, trade sanctions, detention, and wartime prisoner exchanges</h1> Several international developments raise legal issues: a religious leader urged protection of press freedom to prevent misinformation, implicating free speech and media regulation; a major state tightened export controls on rare-earth technologies, raising trade-law and national-security licensing concerns; resumption of direct flights between two states and claims of tariff threats as diplomatic tools implicate aviation agreements and trade law; arrests of protesters and detained fishermen highlight domestic criminal procedure and human rights scrutiny; a state's statement reaffirming constitutional rule of law relates to governance and security measures; and an agreed wartime pause exchanging hostages for prisoners engages international humanitarian law, prisoner-transfer and detainee-rights obligations.