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Pakistan’s first female police chief is breaking barriers in a conservative province where women are often encouraged to stay at home. Rizwana Hameed, who says her presence at the police station encourages more women to report crimes, doesn’t find her new job difficult. She thinks it might be harder for men to stay home and take care of children than it’s been for her to make history. 

In the best case scenario, a limited US pre-emptive strike on North Korea — that would not seriously degrade its capabilities — could convince leader Kim Jong Un to seek dialogue rather than risk a war he cannot win. But given reports that North Korea has produced a miniaturized nuclear warhead, there’s also the worst case scenario to consider.

Look for the crime-terror nexus between Islamic State and criminal gangs in Europe to grow with IS trying to find new sources of revenue as the caliphate crumbles. The connection between the two groups isn’t new; they recruit from the same pool of people with certain skills, including experience with guns and the ability to escape police detection, which can prove challenging for de-radicalization efforts.

Image update. Cambodia’s 65-year-old leader, a onetime Khmer Rouge commander, is reinventing himself in time for next year’s national elections. Although Hun Sen sometimes ruled ruthlessly over the past 32 years, his increasingly active social media presence is showing voters the prime minister’s his warm and fuzzy side.

Ever since a Minnesota mosque was fire-bombed over the weekend, many community members, mainly non-Muslims, have visited the mosque to show solidarity, including the state’s governor along hundreds of people who gathered Tuesday night. All while the FBI continues to investigate.

If you think ketchup is an all-American condiment, think again. A professor of food history who literally wrote the book on ketchup, says the condiment’s story begins over 500 years ago — in Southeast Asia.