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World in brief: December 21, 2020

IRAQ: Eight rockets were fired at the US embassy in Baghdad on Sunday night.

One Iraqi security guard was injured and there was damage to a building and some cars, Iraqi authorities said.

The US embassy said it had deployed its C-Ram defence system to take out the rockets.

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