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The most critical lesson Mwanahamisi Abdallah learned as a student in Tanzania came during a primary school graduation ceremony when she was 14. A faculty member, noting that several students had dropped out to marry, shared an emergency phone number for any girl coerced toward that kind of entanglement. Read the latest installment of VOA’s special report, “The Worth of a Girl.”

The United States on Friday pulled out of the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces treaty to develop its own new warheads after the Russians refused to destroy their new missiles NATO says violate the pact.

Croatia is known to most Americans for its picturesque walled city of Dubrovnik, the setting for many of the scenes in the immensely popular television series Game of Thrones. That is a source of satisfaction for Croatia’s ambassador in Washington, Pjer Šimunović. But he also wants Americans to recognize his country as a security partner contributing to the U.S.-led coalition in Afghanistan and elsewhere.

VIDEO: Gaylen Grandstaff is back at his Moscow home after spending two years in a Russian jail. His crime: buying a cleaning solvent from the Chinese company Alibaba. The solvent is illegal in Russia because it can also be used as a drug.

The Cabinet of Shinzo Abe, Japan’s conservative prime minister, Friday approved plans to remove South Korea from the list of so-called “white countries” with preferred trade status. Beginning Aug. 28, Japanese companies must now seek case-by-case approval from Japan’s trade ministry before shipping certain products, which could be diverted for military use, to South Korea.