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].

Q: Washington (CNN) The advertised purpose of President Barack Obama's pre-vacation news conference Thursday was to highlight gains in the war against ISIS in Iraq and Syria with the Pentagon as a backdrop. But for all his talk of terrorism, Russia and other geopolitical challenges, the underlying argument he wanted to make was clear: it's a serious business being commander-in-chief and the Republican who wants his job isn't fit for the Oval Office. Obama ridiculed Donald Trump's recent suggestion that the election system could be rigged, called on the candidate to act like a president since he's soon to be briefed on confidential information and implied that he didn't believe the billionaire businessman could be trusted with America's nuclear codes.Obama hit out at Trump just two days after branding him unfit to be commander in chiefTrump and Clinton are expected to soon start getting classified intelligence briefings 
 Question:Obama pointed to many such challenges in Thursday's _ news conference, particularly the fight against ISIS, also known as ISIL.

A: Pentagon
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Q: Sudan has withdrawn its soldiers from Abyei, a disputed border region also claimed by South Sudan, but has left police officers, the United Nations peacekeeping mission said Wednesday. "The mission has confirmed the full withdrawal of the SAF from Abyei area yesterday," said Josephine Guerrero, a spokeswoman for the U.N.'s Department of Peacekeeping Operations in New York, referring to the Sudan Armed Forces. "Armed police forces are still in the area." South Sudan's army spokesman, Philip Aguer, said he is "skeptical" that Sudan has truly pulled troops out. He said he had received reports that the Sudan Armed Forces left two platoons of soldiers dressed in police uniforms in Abyei town, and that two battalions remain about 40 miles away in Diffra, which is the only oil field inside the disputed territory.The U.N. has called for Sudan and South Sudan to withdraw forces from AbyeiA South Sudan army spokesman questions whether Sudan has truly pulled its forces outMany people remain displaced in the disputed border regionSudan and South Sudan have returned to peace talks 
 Question:But the new nation depends on pipelines and processing facilities that remain in _.

A: Sudan
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Q: A Maine man convicted of killing a 4-year-old girl by placing her in an oven because he thought she was a demon should be allowed to argue that mental illness prevented a timely appeal, a federal magistrate judge ruled. The magistrate's recommendation provides a possible opening for John Lane, 66, to appeal a crime that happened three decades ago. The Auburn man is serving a life prison sentence for placing Angela Palmer in an oven, turning up the heat and blocking her escape by putting a chair under the handle of the oven door. Elliott Epstein, an attorney who wrote a book about the shocking crime titled 'Lucifer's Child', told the Sun Journal newspaper of Lewiston that Lane still has hurdles to overcome to appeal the case.John Lane, 66, is serving life sentence for placing Angela Palmer in oven, turning up the heat and blocking her escape in 1984Lane believed 4-year-old girl was a scaly, green, fire-breathing creature who was going to kill her familyAngela's mother, Lane's live-in girlfriend Cynthia Palmer, was present in the apartment but did nothing to stop him 
 Question:_ contends his lawyer failed to move for a finding that he was incompetent to stand trial, to obtain records pertaining to mental health and a previous brain injury and to object to the sentence, among other things.

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John Lane
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