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Five quartz arrowheads found in a South African cave were laced with a slow-acting tumbleweed poison that would have tired ...

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Cameroon beat South Africa 2-1 to move into the last eight of the Africa Cup of Nations in Rabat. Goals from Junior Tchamadeu and Christian Kofane were enough to see them into the quarter-finals, ...

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A controversial penalty from Mohamed Salah secured top spot for Egypt in Group B of the Africa Cup of Nations against South Africa. Salah’s nerveless 45th-minute effort from the spot came after South ...

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