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].
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Question: Two of the world's most baseball-obsessed nations declared an end to a half-century of hostility six months ago, raising hopes of warmer ties between the home of the Major Leagues and the source of some of its best talent. But the most important act of sports diplomacy since then is taking place on a soccer field. On Tuesday, the New York Cosmos become the first U.S. professional team to play in Cuba since Presidents Raul Castro and Barack Obama announced that they were re-establishing diplomatic relations. Cuban officials said the friendly match against Cuba's national team was a sign of soccer's growing popularity on the island, and an important step in the normalization of the relationship between the U.S. and Cuba.New York Cosmos will play the Cuba national football team on TuesdayAmerica and Cuba put an end to a half-century of hostility six months agoPele, who played for the original Cosmos franchise, will attend the matchNow-defunct Chicago Sting were last team to play in Cuba, back in 1978 
 Question:While _ is far from a soccer powerhouse, the sport hasn't been spared the waves of departures that have robbed the island's teams of many top-ranked athletes.

Answer: Cuba


Question: PARIS, France (CNN) -- Friends and relatives of the 216 passengers and 12 crew members on Air France Flight 447 are coming to terms with the news that wreckage from the flight was found in the Atlantic Ocean. Eithne Walls, who danced with Riverdance on Broadway, was aboard Air France flight 447. Among those on board were a member of Brazil's former royal family, a one-time performer with the Riverdance troupe, a Rio city official, executives from major international companies and an 11-year-old British schoolboy. Pedro Luis de Orleans e Braganca, 26, was a descendant of the family that ruled Brazil until 1889, a branch of the former Portuguese royal family. The Orleans and Braganca family considered him to be fourth in line to the throne. Pedro Luis was the oldest son of Prince Antonio and Princess Christine, the family said. He was the only member of the family on the flight, his relatives said.Member of Brazil's former royal family among 216 passengers on missing planeOne-time performer with Riverdance troupe, British schoolboy also aboardAir France flight disappeared over Atlantic after taking off from BrazilMajority of the presumed dead came from Brazil, France and Germany 
 Question:The passengers included 61 people from _, 58 Brazilians, 26 Germans and people from 29 other countries, Air France said.

Answer: France


Question: (CNN) An ISIS massacre on the streets of Moscow? Bombs detonated by the same terror group in St. Petersburg? Such "huge terrorist acts" might have happened if Russian authorities hadn't detained seven alleged ISIS members, state media reported. The FSB -- Russia's security agency and the successor to the Soviet Union's KGB -- told state-run TASS news that the seven suspects were charged Wednesday for plotting terrorist attacks. They'd been detained February 7 in Yekaterinburg, Russia's fourth-largest city situated in the Sverdlovsk region in the Urals, according to a report by state-run Sputnik news citing the FSB. To date, Russia hasn't been hit by ISIS terror attacks on busy, civilian-filled areas like those in Paris, Tunis or Jakarta. But it has been a target, in part for the Kremlin's armed efforts against the Islamist extremist group in Syria.Agency: The suspects were from Russia, central Asian nations and led by someone who'd come from TurkeySearches of the suspects' houses turned up a bomb lab, guns, grenades and "extremist literature," state news saysISIS has threatened attacks in Russia, which is involved in a military campaign against the terror group in Syria 
 Question:They were ready to launch "high-profile terrorist attacks" in Moscow, _ and around Sverdlovsk.

Answer:
St. Petersburg


