Problem: Brooklyn Borough Hall featured a Who's Who in New York's literary community during the second annual Brooklyn Book Festival. According to Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz, the borough's zip code 11215 boasts more authors than anywhere else in the country. It appeared to be the case on Sunday. More than 100 authors were featured at the day-long event, including The Basketball Diaries writer Jim Carroll, former M*A*S*H star Mike Farrell, author and illustrator Mo Willems, Jack Kerouac's sometime lover and National Book Critics Circle Award recipient Joyce Johnson and PEN American Center President Francine Prose.

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The Brooklyn Book Festival is held in Brooklyn Borough every year.

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Answer: yes

Problem: Israel controls an area of about 850 square kilometres in the south of the Lebanese Republic, while Syria has about 30 thousand soldiers over two thirds of the Lebanese territory.

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Syria has 30,000 soldiers in 60% of Lebanon, and Israel controls an area in the south of 850 square kms.

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Answer: yes

Problem: Shiite and Kurdish political leaders continued talks, on Monday, on forming a new government, saying they expected a full cabinet to be announced within a day or two.

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US officials are concerned by the political vacuum and fear that it is feeding sectarian tensions, correspondents say.

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Answer: no

Problem: It is an independence movement among the Tamil peoples of northern Sri Lanka -- the ancient land of Ceylon independent from Britain in 1948 and took the name Sri Lanka, a Sinhalese word, in 1972.

Based on that paragraph can we say the following?
The current name of Ceylon is Sri Lanka.

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yes