Consider the following pairs : Regions often mentioned in news : Reason for being in news 1. North Kivu and Ituri : War between Armenia and Azerbaijan 2. Nagorno-Karabakh : Insurgency in Mozambique 3. Kherson and Zaporizhzhia : Dispute between Israel and Lebanon How many of the above pairs are correctly matched?

Option (d) is correct because all three pairs are mismatched: North Kivu and Ituri are in the DR Congo, Nagorno-Karabakh is the center of the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict, and Kherson and Zaporizhzhia are regions in Ukraine. Option (a) is the most tempting wrong choice for candidates who recognize the names but fail to correctly link them to their specific geopolitical contexts. The core concept being tested is "Places in News," requiring precise knowledge of global conflict zones and their geographic locations.