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The YouTube online video-sharing platform has blocked four videos after a request from Russia's Roskomnadzor media watchdog, Agentsvo Telegram channel reported on May 20.

After the death of President Ebrahim Raisi, many are asking what this means for Iran and if it will bring major changes to Tehran's domestic and foreign policies. The short answer to the latter question, analysts say, is no.

Parents of Pakistani students in Kyrgyzstan held a protest following attacks on foreign students in Kyrgyzstan, demanding the Kyrgyz government provide security for their children. The demonstration was held in Swat Valley on May 20.

A military court in Moscow has started the trial of theater director Yevgenia Berkovich and playwright Svetlana Petriichuk, who are charged with justifying terrorism.

Georgian parliamentary Speaker Shalva Papuashvili said lawmakers, as expected, will overrule President Salome Zurabishvili's veto of the so-called "foreign agent" bill targeting media and NGOs that are funded by foreign governments.

Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico's condition is stable and he is improving, doctors treating him said on May 20, as he recovers from being hit by four bullets in an assassination attempt last week.

The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court has announced that he is seeking arrest warrants for Israeli leaders, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and senior figures in Hamas, which has been designated a terrorist organization by the United States and the European Union.

The death of Iranian President Ebrahimi Raisi has left a huge vacancy to fill, and fast. Elections must be held within 50 days, leaving the clerical establishment scrambling to find a suitable replacement.

Iranian state media showed rescue workers and soldiers carrying away the bodies of the casualties after a helicopter with senior officials on board crashed in the country's northwest. State television announced on May 20 that President Ebrahim Raisi had died in the crash.

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei declared five days of mourning after the bodies of President Ebrahim Raisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian were found at the site of a helicopter crash in northwest Iran.

Following unprecedented mob violence targeting foreign students from South Asia in Kyrgyzstan, around 1,200 Pakistani students at the Bishkek-based Kyrgyzstan International University have left the Central Asian nation.

A court in Siberia on May 20 sentenced anti-war activist Ilya Baburin to 25 years in prison on a high-treason charge that stemmed from allegations that the 24-year-old planned to set several military recruitment centers on fire.

Iran’s ultraconservative President Ebrahim Raisi has died at the age of 63. He was widely believed to be in line to become the country’s next supreme leader.

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and his companions, including Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, have been found dead at the site of a helicopter crash in northwest Iran.

Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian is a conservative figure close to the powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps.