内容摘要：Despite last-minute snags, Ukraine secured a deal that’s set to bring closer ties with the U.S. and provide a vehicle for future military assistance.  Ukraine’s parliament voted unanimously to ratify the agreement on Thursday, and other documents pertaining to the deal are being finalized.

Despite last-minute snags, Ukraine secured a deal that’s set to bring closer ties with the U.S. and provide a vehicle for future military assistance.  Ukraine’s parliament voted unanimously to ratify the agreement on Thursday, and other documents pertaining to the deal are being finalized.

Ali Samoudi, who has worked for international news outlets including CNN and Al Jazeera, was detained late last month by the Israeli military from his family home in the city of Jenin in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, and has spent part of the time in the hospital due to chronic health issues.The Israeli military said Samoudi was detained based on involvement in “actions endangering regional security” but that a police investigation did not find sufficient evidence against him to issue an arrest. However, on Thursday, a military court decided to place him under administrative detention for six months.

Israeli authorities can renewDetainees are held without charge or trial. Israel says the controversial tactic is necessary for security reasons, but Palestinians and rights groups say the system denies due process and is widely abused.Chehayeb reported from Beirut. Associated Press writer Melanie Lidman in Tel Aviv, Israel, and Sally Abou AlJoud in Beirut, Lebanon contributed to this report.

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Armed groups and others have looted warehouses of supplies in northernas desperation spikes after more than

of the territory, locals and aid workers said Saturday as Israel’s latest airstrikes killed more than a dozen people.

Unidentified people, both armed and unarmed, have been looting U.N. and aid groups’ warehouses, as well as bakeries and shops since Wednesday, according to witnesses, organizations in Gaza and messages that were circulated among security officials for aid groups and were seen by The Associated Press.April 4: Russian forces carry out a combined missile and drone attack on a residential area in Kryvyi Rih that blasted a playground. According to local authorities, 20 people were killed,

, and 74 others were wounded. The assault damaged more than 60 apartment buildings and private homes., a Russian ballistic missile strikes

filled with civilians, killing 35 people, including two children, and wounding 119. It was one of the deadliest attacks on Ukrainian civilians this year. The next day, Russia said it targeted a gathering of senior Ukrainian military officers. Putin later admitted it was a “civilian facility” but claimed it hosted an award ceremony for Ukrainian troops.April 18: Three Russian cluster munitions struck Kharkiv, killing one man and wounding 113 people, including nine children.