Question: Government forces killed the head of the Armed Islamic Group, or GIA, which has claimed responsibility for killing 61 foreigners in the last year.

The abbreviation GIA stands for Armed Islamic Group.
Answer: yes
Question: Foreign Ministers of the 16 NATO member countries met early this morning with their Russian counterpart, Yevgeny Primakov, in Berlin in a bid to improve NATO-Russia relations.

The NATO has 16 members.
Answer: yes
Question: The controversy became more desperate, this summer, when astronomers discovered a new object, larger than Pluto, orbiting in the Kuiper Belt at a distance of nine billion miles from the Sun.

The Kuiper Belt is nine billion miles from the Sun.
Answer:
yes