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The Farmer Bridge Assistance Program is a one-time payment meant to help farmers make it to the next growing season.

As the Gulf State's newsroom's Drew Hackens reports, farmers have been hit hard this year.

Without subsidies, you can't afford it.

Bottom line.

Hong Kong's last opposition party has voted to disband.

Hong Kong's Democratic Party has been the city's biggest pro-democracy party for more than 30 years.

But the party chair said today that the vote to disband and enter liquidation was overwhelming and that it is the best way forward.

Both Reuters and the Associated Press are quoting party members as saying some were warned of consequences if the party did not shut down.

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Belarus has released more than 120 prisoners, a U.S.

statement says they include the Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Alice Belyatsky.

The release, in exchange for sanctions relief, follows negotiations with an envoy for President Trump.

Meanwhile, international human rights groups are condemning the reported arrest of another Peace Prize laureate, Narges Mohammadi, in Iran.

Here's NPR's Jackie Northam.

The Nobel Committee is calling on Iranian authorities to clarify Mahavati's whereabouts.

Iran has not confirmed the arrest.

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military will host an international conference in Qatar next week.

Its aim is to plan the force that will be deployed in Gaza.