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New US Embassy Inaugurated in Iraq

The huge embassy, built over several years, is the size of 80 football fields (AP).

Under tight security in Baghdad, US Marines have raised their flag over the world's largest American embassy.

During an inauguration ceremony on Monday, US officials said the $700m state-of-the-art complex will usher in a new era of relations with Iraq, which it invaded nearly six years ago.

The ceremony was held a day after a suicide bomber killed at least 38 people at a Shia shrine just 6km north of the new embassy.

On Monday, four bombs went off in different parts of Baghdad just before noon, killing four people and injuring 19 others.

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