Question: The Prime Minister of Spain Zapatero visited Brazil, Argentina, Chile and Uruguay recently, in a effort to build a left axis in South America. The cited countries' South American Presidents agreed to collaborate at international level, particularly in the United Nations , European Union and with Paris, Berlin and Madrid.

Brazil is part of the United Nations.

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Answer: yes
Question: Canada rig count at 148, down 46 compared to last week's and down 27 compared to last year's.

Last year, the tally was 148

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Answer: no
Question: The final major piece of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 was to hit just after midnight, completing a ring of crater-like plumes of swirling superheated gas and debris thousands of miles across. "It hit Jupiter like a string of machine-gun bullets" said Eugene Shoemaker, an astronomer at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Ariz., who helped discover the comet last year.

The Shoemaker-Levy comet hit Jupiter.

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yes