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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Kuwait said it was targeted with a missile and drone attack Thursday, another challenge to the shaky ceasefire in theIran warfollowing strikes by both Washington and Tehran.

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Kuwait’s military made the announcement, without providing further details on what had been targeted. Iran said hours later that it launched an attack in the region, but it did not say exactly what was targeted.

Kuwait, a close ally of the U.S., repeatedly came under fire from Iran and Iranian-backed Shiite militias in Iraq during the war.

The announcement comes as the Middle East is on the edge. U.S. President Donald Trump has expressed confidence that his administration is making headway in negotiations with Iran to end the war, but the talks remain influx.

Trump is looking for an agreement that will reopenthe Strait of Hormuz— through which about a fifth of all traded oil and natural gas once passed. He is also seeking to get Iran to give up its stockpile of highly enriched uranium while the Islamic Republic wants economic sanctions to be lifted and frozen assets to be released to aid its shattered economy. The war has been unpopular in the U.S., and Iran's closure of the strait has sent oil prices skyrocketing, driving up fuel prices around the world.

As the negotiations continue, there have been several challenges to the ceasefire in recent days.

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On Monday, the U.S. said it conductedwhat the Pentagon called “defensive” strikeson missile launch sites and minelaying boats in southern Iran. U.S. officials said late Wednesday in Washington that forces launchedmore strikeson Iran, shooting down four one-way attack drones that posed a threat around the strait and hitting an Iranian ground control station in Bandar Abbas that was about to launch a fifth drone.

The officials were not authorized to comment publicly and spoke on the condition of anonymity.

Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard via the state-run IRNA news agency acknowledged the attack around Bandar Abbas International Airport and said it launched its own retaliatory attack on the air base that launched the assault.

It did not elaborate on the target and it wasn’t clear whether that was the attack that Kuwait announced.

Associated Press writer Konstantin Toropin in Washington contributed to this report.

By Simon Johnson

UPPSALA, Sweden, May 28 (Reuters) - Sweden's Prime Minister Ulf ‌Kristersson will host Ukrainian President ‌Volodymyr Zelenskiy in Sweden in Thursday, where the ​they will present news related to aviation, the government said.

Kristersson and Zelenskiy signed a letter of intent last ‌year that ⁠could see Sweden sell up to 150 of its newer ⁠Gripen E fighter jets to Ukraine. But with deliveries several years ​away, there ​have been discussions ​about transfer of ‌existing, C/D model Swedish Gripens.

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The planes are a priority for Ukraine's fighter fleet and the country's defence minister said in May that a deal ‌for Gripen E ​could be signed "within months" ​after the ​European Union approved a ‌90 billion euro loan to ​Ukraine.

Shares ​in Saab rose following the announcement and were up 4.86% at ​0817 GMT.

(Reporting ‌by Simon Johnson, Johan Ahlander, Louise ​Rasmussen and Essi Lehto; editing ​by Niklas Pollard)

Actor Paul Rudd remembered the first time his kids saw his movies during a recent podcast appearance.

Key Points

• He said his son, Jack, was upset by Reno 911! Miami.

• Daughter Darby's first viewing experience was Clueless.

Paul Ruddis delightful, sure, but being his kid isn't always easy.

"There's one time I had done aReno 911!movie," Rudd said Wednesday on Jake Shane'sTherapusspodcast. "My son, when he was really little turned on the TV, and thisReno 911!movie was on television, and it was right at a moment when Patton Oswalt is — it's ridiculous — he's shooting me with a machine gun. It's bloody. And he saw me getting murdered, and he was a little kid, and it really traumatized him. He didn't like it."

Rudd shares son Jack, who was born in 2006, and daughter Darby, who was born in 2010, with wife Julie Yaeger. The couple married in 2003.

Rudd's performance in the 2007Reno 911!movie followed his appearances on the Comedy Central series, whose cast included Thomas Lennon, Niecy Nash, Robert Ben Garant, Cedric Yarbrough, Kerri Kinney, and Wendi McLendon-Covey.

TheWet Hot American Summer actor's daughter had her own interesting experience seeing her dad on film for the first time. For starters, he wasn't even there.

"It's funny. I've never showed my kids any of the stuff," Rudd said and then spoke to Darby in the audience. "But it was you. It was one time when you were little, a babysitter showed you."

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Shane commented that was a strange situation: "A babysitter showed youCluelesswithout your dad's permission."

"Yeah," Rudd recalled, "I was a little bummed out, I'll be honest. I was like, 'Wait a minute. Hold on. You can't do that.' She’s never seen anything I had done."

In November 2021, Rudd said he was rewatching hisFriendsperformances, which originally aired between 2002 and 2004, with his daughter. Rudd played Mike, the husband of Lisa Kurdrow's Phoebe, over a 16-episode arc.

"I hadn't really revisited many of those episodes," the then-reigning Sexiest Man Alive oldPEOPLE. "But now that she's watching it, it's like, 'Oh, I remember this,' and I tell her some story about it," Rudd said. "I'm far enough away from some things now that I can allow myself to be a little nostalgic about it."

His daughter was more of a fan of Matt LeBlanc's character: "But then she'll just be like, 'Well, you're not Joey.'"

Episodes ofTherapussare available onSpotify(above) andNetflix.

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Warning: This article contains spoilers from Episodes 1-3 of "Dutton Ranch," now streaming on Paramount+.

"Yellowstone"fan-favorite coupleRip Wheeler (Cole Hauser) and Beth Dutton (Kelly Reilly) are riding straight into the action as they arrive in South Texas from Montana after losing everything. However,Beth did grab Elsa Dutton's knifebefore leaving their home, which was ultimately destroyed in a fire.

As the couple attempts to rebuild their life again with their teenager, Carter (Finn Little), "far from the ghosts of Yellowstone − they collide with brutal new realities and a ruthless rival ranch that will stop at nothing to protect its empire," according to the series' synopsis.

In Texas, the Duttons are outnumbered as they facea new rival family ranch owner,Beulah Jackson (Annette Bening)and her sons Rob-Will Jackson (Jai Courtney) andJoaquin Jackson (Juan Pablo Raba).

"We had to pluck these characters off a world they knew into a new one to start again and grow them in a different direction," Reilly told USA TODAY.

"Dutton Ranch" director and executive producerChristina Alexandra Voros previously told USA TODAYthe couple's Texas chapter is "a new beginning, the kind of heartbeat and story of the American West."

The spinoff hasset new records for Paramount+with the premiere episodes reaching 12.9 million views globally over seven days, marking the biggest original series launch for the streamer. The former champion was in the family,Taylor Sheridan's "The Madison,"which reached more than eight million views during its first 10 days on the platform after premiering on March 14.

The Paramount Network"Dutton Ranch" launchscored on linear TV as well, delivering 2.9 million total viewers on premiere night across its two-episode debut (garnering 1.9 million viewers on Episode 1). It's the biggest series premiere on cable since 2023.

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Here's what to know about when new episodes of "Dutton Ranch" release and who from "Yellowstone" is in the cast.

Exclusive interview:Cole Hauser, Kelly Reilly hit Texas heat, 275 snakes in 'Dutton Ranch'

When and how to watch new 'Dutton Ranch' episodes?

Episode 4 of "Dutton Ranch" will release on Friday, May 29, at 3 a.m. ET / 12 a.m. PT on Paramount+, with new episodes dropping weekly on Fridays through July 3. The episodes will also air on the Paramount Network at 8 p.m. ET / PT on Fridays.

Episodes of "Dutton Ranch" will be available to stream Fridays on Paramount+, starting Friday, May 15, at 3 a.m. ET / 12 a.m. PT. They will also air on the Paramount Network at 8 p.m. ET / PT on Fridays.

'Dutton Ranch' episode schedule

The show is listed to have nine episodes. With three episodes out, here's what the remaining schedule looks like:

• Episode 4 "Start With a Bullet": May 29

• Episode 5 "Peaceful Find Peace": June 5

• Episode 6 "A Cowboy Saint": June 12

• Episode 7 "Den of Sin": June 19

• Episode 8 "Whiskey Limits": June 26

• Episode 9 "El Padrino": July 3

Watch 'Dutton Ranch' trailer

'Dutton Ranch' cast

The cast for "Dutton Ranch," according to Paramount Television Studios, includes:

• Kelly Reilly as Beth Dutton

• Cole Hauser as Rip Wheeler

• Finn Little as Carter

• Juan Pablo Raba as Joaquin

• Jai Courtney as Rob-Will

• J.R. Villarreal as Azul Ramos

• Marc Menchaca as Zachariah

• Natalie Alyn Lind as Oreana

• Ed Harris as Everett McKinney

• Annette Bening as Beulah Jackson

Contributing: Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY

Saman Shafiq is a trending news reporter for USA TODAY. Reach her at sshafiq@usatodayco.com and follow her on X and Instagram @saman_shafiq7.

This article originally appeared on USA TODAY:'Dutton Ranch' Episode 4 release date, time, how to watch

By Dan Peleschuk

Ukrainian servicemen fire a multiple launch rocket system in Dnipropetrovsk region

KHARKIV REGION, Ukraine, May 27 (Reuters) - Ukraine has a six-month window in which to seize the battlefield initiative from Russia and strengthen its hand for peace talks, a senior commander told Reuters, predicting a "turning point" was imminent after more than four years of war.

Russian forces have made grinding gains since their full-scale invasion of Ukraine ‌in February 2022, but the advances have slowed this year and Ukrainian troops are increasing pressure on the battlefield to try to push them back.

Brigadier General Andriy Biletsky, who commands ‌Ukraine's Third Army Corps, one of Ukraine's most respected fighting forces, told Reuters in an interview that he believes Russia's army is exhausted and incapable of making major breakthroughs.

If Ukraine's military can build and maintain momentum over several months, it can gain ​the initiative along the frontline and push Russia to abandon its designs on the last part of the Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine that it does not yet occupy, he said.

"I believe the next six to nine months are a turning point," Biletsky said at an undisclosed underground location in the northeastern Kharkiv region.

"More precisely, I think the next six are the most critical," he said.

The issue of who controls Donetsk has been a stumbling block in U.S.-backed peace talks that have stalled, with Russia wanting the entire region and Ukraine refusing to withdraw from territory that Moscow's troops have been unable to conquer.

"We need to define those ‌directions where we can improve our positions, take some strategic points, and ⁠then speak with the Russians from a position of strength - not weakness - about a truly stable truce," said Biletsky, a right-wing political leader who founded the battle-hardened Azov Battalion and now commands tens of thousands of troops.

"From a military point of view, this is realistic."

Russia's Defence Ministry did not immediately respond to a request ⁠for comment for this story. Russian President Vladimir Putin has vowed victory in Ukraine and said this month he thinks the war is nearing an end.

'CRITICAL' MONTHS AHEAD

Russia's advances have been complicated by a decision by billionaire Elon Musk to deny Moscow's forces access to his Starlink satellite-based internet service. Kyiv has meanwhile stepped up medium-range drone attacks on Russian air defences and logistics, helping more long-range strikes get through to hit oil and military facilities ​in ​Russia.

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said last week Ukraine had retaken nearly 600 square km (230 square miles) of territory in 2026. ​Reuters could not independently verify the figure. Moscow currently controls almost one-fifth of ‌Ukrainian territory.

Assessing the military situation, John Helin of the Finland-based Black Bird conflict-analysis group echoed Biletsky in saying fatigue was a problem for Russian forces, while Ukraine's war effort is hampered by a manpower shortage.

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"It does seem like, four or five months into this year, it's much more likely that the Russians will get exhausted before the Ukrainian problems come to a breaking point," he told Reuters.

On Monday, the U.S.-based Institute for the Study of War said Kyiv's forces were now "actively challenging the positional character of the war" and could soon be capable of staging limited mechanised assaults.

'FORTRESS BELT'

Russian troops are bearing down on eastern Ukraine's "Fortress Belt" where fighting is raging inside the strategic city of Kostiantynivka, its southern end.

The constellation of heavily fortified cities anchors Ukrainian defences. Capturing it would position Russia to threaten the rest of the ‌Donbas.

Biletsky, whose forces hold over one-tenth of the total front line, said his troops were firmly holding the flank ​around Sloviansk, the belt's northern bastion, and forcing Russia to attack the city head-on.

Such costly assaults have helped drain Russian ​forces and led to heavy losses of field commanders, he said, in what he described ​as a professional degradation of Moscow's military.

"The lack of personnel no longer allows them to advance the way they did, for example, a year ago," said Biletsky.

Biletsky ‌said it was too early to draw conclusions from Kyiv's recent success, but ​that Ukraine could capitalise on it by continuing mid-range ​attacks and advancing "carefully".

Moscow is "radically losing" in battlefield communications because of Musk's crackdown on use of Starlink, Biletsky said.

But he described the sides at parity in evolving technology - with Ukraine leading in unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) and heavy bomber drones, and Russia winning the race for fibre-optic drones, which cannot be jammed.

A potential blueprint for a modernised Ukrainian army, his corps has led efforts ​to transform training and integrate new technology such as UGVs as an important ‌part of its battlefield strategy.

Biletsky's units lead the way in deploying stealthy kamikaze drones and robots armed with machineguns or rocket launchers to replace significant portions of infantrymen, ​aiming for 30% by 2027, he said.

The next "revolution" will allow commanders to stage more "creative" combined assault operations while conserving precious troops, Biletsky said.

"It will happen this year, and I ​think we'll show how our corps is a vivid example of it," he said.

(Editing by Timothy Heritage)

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