In this task, you will be shown a passage. You need to write a fill-in-the-gap question based on your understanding of the events that might be inferred from the passage. Your question should be answerable based on the passage and only have one correct answer. Show the gap in your question with a _ .

[EX Q]: HSBC is cutting up to 8,000 jobs in Britain and slashing the number of branches as part of huge global restructuring plans. The banking giant - which employs around 48,000 of its 258,000 global staff in the UK - revealed it is axing 25,000 jobs worldwide in a bombshell announcement this morning. It plans to relocate its UK headquarters from London to Birmingham by 2019 and could move its global HQ out of Britain and over to Hong Kong. The bank also intends to close up to 12 per cent of its branches worldwide, with the 1,057 branches in the UK expected to be affected.Europe's largest bank is cutting 25,000 jobs worldwide - 8,000 in the UKUp to 12 per cent of its 1,000 UK branches could also be closedSpeculation mounting it could move its base from London to Hong KongBritish headquarters are set to move from London to Birmingham
[EX A]: In its keenly-awaited strategy update, HSBC added it would make a decision about where to base its headquarters by the end of the year, after announcing recently that it was considering a move away from the _ due to regulatory and structural reforms.

[EX Q]: London (CNN) -- Julian Assange demanded that the United States drop its "witch hunt" against WikiLeaks on Sunday as he made his first public appearance after months effectively confined to the Embassy of Ecuador in London. "As WikiLeaks stands under threat, so does the freedom of expression and the health of all our societies," the founder of website said to cheers from his supporters outside the embassy. "The U.S. war on whistle-blowers must end," Assange said, calling for the freedom of Bradley Manning, the U.S. soldier suspected of giving hundreds of thousands of pages of secret American government documents to Assange for publication on WikiLeaks.NEW: UNASUR backs Ecuador and calls for dialogue to resolve the standoffJulian Assange links WikiLeaks to freedom of expression around the worldThe founder of WikiLeaks hadn't been seen since June, or spoken in public since MarchEcuador's president says Britain threatened to raid the embassy to arrest Assange
[EX A]: Ecuador raised the stakes in its diplomatic row with the United Kingdom on Thursday, officially offering _ asylum in the South American country.

[EX Q]: Los Angeles (CNN) -- The judge presiding over the Michael Jackson family's wrongful death lawsuit against AEG rejected the concert promoter's arguments that family members were the source of leaked e-mails in the case. AEG lawyers accused Michael Jackson's three children, his mother and their lawyers of giving the e-mails to a newspaper reporter in violation of the judge's order that they remain under seal. "It is clear that only one entity could have done it," AEG lawyer Marvin Putnam said in a hearing last month. Jackson family lawyers became furious in court, pointing out that AEG was accusing 10-year-old Blanket Jackson, the youngest of the children.AEG failed to show the leaked e-mails came from the Jackson side of the lawsuit, judge saysThe e-mails reveal AEG had doubts about Michael Jackson's health months before his deathJackson's mother and children accuse the concert promoter of contributing to the deathThe trial is set for April
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While publication of the e-mails might have made AEG look bad, they were "extremely negative against Michael Jackson," painting him "as a basket case," _ lawyer Deborah Chang said.