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This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

I'm Nick Miles and in the early hours of Wednesday, the 3rd of January, these are our main stories.

Hamas says it's deputy political leader, Sala al-Aruri, and two senior commanders of its armed

wing have been killed by an Israeli attack in the Lebanese capital Beirut.

Two of the world's biggest shipping firms have said they'll continue to avoid the

Red Sea after more hoothed the attacks. Police in Brazil are searching for hundreds of prisoners

who have failed to return to prison after being granted leave for Christmas.

Also in this podcast, Chinese schoolboy, Kaizhouang, had been

sent pictures of their son,

indicating he'd been abducted.

So was he or was it a case of cyber kidnapping?

We start in Lebanon. Hamas says one of its most senior leaders has been killed in an explosion in the capital Beirut.

Sala al-Aruri was the deputy head of its political bureau and one of the founder

members of Hamas's military wing. Local media reports say five others have been killed in the attack and several

people wounded. Video footage showed a car in flames and extensive damage to buildings

in the District of Dachia.

Our diplomatic correspondent Caroline Hawley reports.

The strike happening at the southern suburbs of Beirut. Local media in Lebanon said

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