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].

[EX Q]: Britons are by far the biggest adopters of contactless payments in Europe as the use of the system continues to climb across the continent, new figures reveal. More than one billion contactless transactions worth €12.6billion took place in Europe over the last 12 months – a three-fold increase when compared to the same period in 2014, according to Visa Europe. Britain is the country with the highest number of contactless transactions, with 52.6million worth more than €330million made in March alone, followed by Poland and Czech Republic, with 49.7million and 13.9million transactions respectively. This rapid growth in the UK was fuelled in part by the launch of contactless payments on Transport for London services last September, Visa Europe said.The UK issues the highest number of contactless cardsBritons made 52.6million transactions worth more than €330million in MarchSome 1.1billion contactless transactions worth €12.6billion were made by Visa cardholders across Europe in the last 12 months 
 Question:_ is a payments technology business owned and operated by member banks and other payment service providers from 37 countries across Europe.
[EX A]: Europe

[EX Q]: Pet cats are being snatched off the streets and killed in their ten of thousands across Asia - to feed the booming appetite for their meat in Vietnam. Restaurants serving domestic cats – sold as a delicacy known as 'baby tiger' – are springing up across northern Vietnam, despite laws against eating the animals. And at one restaurant – an hour's drive from the capital Hanoi – the owner told MailOnline demand is so high he'd slaughtered 31 cats already that day just to keep up. Scroll down for video Caught, skinned and boned: A wheelbarrow load of cats arrives at popular restaurant near Hanoi, VietnamWARNING GRAPHIC CONTENTDomestic cats stolen off the streets and sold to restaurants for £52 eachMoggie meat served in Vietnam as an expensive delicacy called 'baby tiger'Serving cat is banned - but big customers are police officers and lawyersFelines are cooped up in tiny cages then killed, skinned and filleted to eat 
 Question:And a _ probe has found pet cats destined for the dinner table are being held in horrific conditions as they await slaughter.
[EX A]: MailOnline

[EX Q]: Former Vice President Dick Cheney called a Senate panel's report on U.S. interrogation tactics during George W. Bush's administration is "deeply flawed" and a "terrible piece of work." "The report's full of crap," he said in an interview with Fox News on Wednesday evening. Bush's Republican vice president insisted that the Central Intelligence Agency's rough tactics -- which the report said included mock executions, beatings, "rectal rehydration" and feeding, sleep deprivation and more -- helped the United States "catch the bastards who killed 3,000 of us on 9/11." "It did in fact produce actionable intelligence that was vital in the success of keeping the country safe from further attacks," he said.Dick Cheney called the Senate Intelligence Committee's report on CIA interrogation techniques a "terrible piece of work"He said he has no regrets about the tactics used after the 9/11 terrorist attacks 
 Question:Contrary to the report's conclusion that Bush didn't know the extent of the CIA's efforts, Cheney said the President was involved in discussions about the interrogation techniques, and that _ even pointed out some of those conversations in a book he wrote after leaving office.
[EX A]:
George W. Bush

