TASK DEFINITION: In this task, you will be presented with a passage and have to answer a question based on your understanding of the events inferred from the passage. Try to find the best answer that is most likely to fill in "_". Note that the URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
PROBLEM: Pakistan has shut down Save the Children's headquarters in Islamabad and given aid agency 15 days to leave the country after accusing it of spying. Police locked the gate of the charity's office in the capital last night, demanded employees leave and put up a notice saying the building was sealed. Acting on behalf of the Ministry of the Interior, officials added that the government wanted all foreign nationals working with the charity to leave Pakistan within 15 days. It was not immediately clear how many foreigners were currently working with Save the Children in Pakistan. The charity, which has been in Pakistan for over 35 years, has had run-ins with the government since 2011, when it was linked to Shakil Afridi, a Pakistani doctor recruited by the CIA to help in the hunt that led to the killing of Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad.Police arrived at charity headquarters last night and told all staff to leaveOfficers then locked the gate of the office and sealed off the premisesAllegedly acting on behalf of the Ministry of the Interior, the officials then told foreign workers they must all leave the country within 15 daysSave the Children has been add odds with Pakistani politicians since 2011Charity was said to have been linked to a Pakistani doctor recruited by the CIA in the hunt to find Osama bin Laden, who was killed in Abbottabad 
 Question:An official at the charity said several staff members had been denied visas since 2012, and aid supplies had been blocked by _ authorities.

SOLUTION: Pakistan

PROBLEM: An Alabama woman on trial for murder in her granddaughter's death called out the child's name time after time as the girl lay on the ground after collapsing, but didn't tell medics the girl had run for hours, according to evidence presented on Tuesday. Joyce Hardin Garrard, 49, is heard repeatedly calling the name of 9-year-old Savannah Hardin in the more than 11-minute 911 recording played in an otherwise silent courtroom. The child's stepmother, Jessica Mae Hardin, told the 911 operator the girl had a seizure. Garrard talked in the background. Jurors heard a 911 during which Joyce Hardin Garrard didn't tell medics that she had made the girl had run for hours and could also be heard asking for 'a smoke' while the child was unconsciousSavannah Hardin, 9, died three years ago from a seizure that occured while her grandmother Joyce Garrard, 49, was forcing her to run as punishmentGarrard is currently on trail and accused of murderWitness Jolie Jacobs testified that Savannah was crying and begging to stop before she collapsedShe also told the court that she heard Garrard striking the child and described as 'skin on skin'Jurors heard a 911 during which Garrard didn't tell medics that she had made the girl had run for hoursGarrard can also be heard on the recording asking for 'a smoke' while the child was unconscious 
 Question:'She was throwing up while she was trying to get water,' _ testified.

SOLUTION: Jolie Jacobs

PROBLEM: England’s David Gill, who took the moral stand not to serve on any committee chaired by the departing FIFA president Sepp Blatter, has ruled himself out of the race to succeed him. Gill’s standing in the global game from his former role as Manchester United chief executive has seen him mentioned as a possible candidate even after only two years on the UEFA executive. But Gill has already decided not to put his name forward as a candidate. He is prepared, however, to take part in the next FIFA executive meeting even if it is chaired by Blatter, who is desperately trying to hang on to his job until the election despite the huge corruption scandal engulfing FIFA.The 57-year-old British FIFA vice-president had been viewed as one of the potential successors to BlatterBut Gill told colleagues at UEFA and the FA that he will not stand to be the next leader of the global organisationIt is understood Gill will take up his position on the FIFA executive committee now that Blatter has confirmed his intention to quit as presidentThe chances of UEFA president Michel Platini standing for the FIFA post may also be diminishing 
 Question:Oddly, Niersbach hinted that Platini’s best chance of taking charge of _ might already have gone.

SOLUTION:
FIFA