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: (CNN) Mariella Azzato sees her staff thinning almost daily in Venezuela. Over 430 professors, assistants and faculty have left the University of Simon Bolivar, in Caracas, since 2015, according to Azzato, the university's vice rector of administration. The public university is widely considered one of Venezuela's best, yet more than a third of the faculty have left in three years. The vast majority of professors are leaving in search of better lives in other countries as Venezuela dives deeper into an economic and humanitarian crisis punctuated by a government many, including President Trump, deem a dictatorship. "A moment is going to arrive when there's isn't anyone," Azzato laments. "There's an exodus of the most talented professors to other countries."Professors seek better lives in other countries as Venezuela dives deeper into crisisOver 39,000 Venezuelans sought asylum around the world in the first half of this year, UN report says 
 Question:Some _ cross the border to buy food, toiletries and other essentials and then return the same day to Venezuela.

A: Venezuela
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Q: A British army officer who realised she was transgender during a tour of Afghanistan at the age of 25 has posted images from her hospital bed after undergoing the final stages of her transition. Hannah Winterbourne, 28, who is now the army's Transgender Representative, has documented the journey she's undergone to reassign her gender, posting images and messages to followers. Cardiff-based Hannah, who first came out as transgender in 2012, underwent sex reassignment surgery (SRS) on October 29 and has been recovering in hospital since. On the day of her operation she posted an emotive message entitled 'Today is the day' with a poem about a 'new future' posted beneath it.Transgender British army officer Hannah Winterbourne, 28, has been tweeting from her hospital bed after undergoing reassignment surgeryWinterbourne came out in 2012 at 25 after serving in AfghanistanHas received support from high profile friends including Jack Monroe 
 Question:Several days later, she tweeted: '4 days since my lower surgery (SRS) & I am filming a Q&A session on what _ means to me.'

A: SRS
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Q: KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (CNN) -- The soldiers had barely arrived in Iraq before they got new orders -- get ready for Afghanistan. A soldier waits in Baghdad for a flight to his new mission in Kandahar. The 4th Engineer Battalion out of Colorado Springs, Colorado, deployed to Camp Victory near Baghdad in mid-February. Two weeks after the unit began actually going out on operations in Iraq, it was ordered to redeploy to Kandahar in Afghanistan. The soldiers hadn't even finished painting their emblem outside their tactical operations command when the move began. But even as he walked through the stripped-down post, battalion commander Lt. Col. Kevin Landers could not hold back his excitement.Troops hadn't even finished painting their emblem when they got orders to moveRedeployment put strain on battalion, trained to clear mines and bombs from roadsCNN traveled with troops as they flew from one war zone to the nextSoldiers say they are ready for the new mission in the new battlefield 
 Question:None of the soldiers with whom CNN traveled to _ knew what to expect when they hit the ground in Kandahar.

A:
Afghanistan
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