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New political order established at the Congress of Vienna After the victory over Napoleon, the Congress of Vienna met from September 1814 to June 1815 to redraw the political map of Europe ...

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The French director Alain Guiraudie’s latest film, a bent kind of murder mystery, presents life at its basest and gamiest. By Wesley Morris This gimmicky thriller starring Bill Skarsgard and ...

These are the key developments on day 1,121 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.

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