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A patient is evacuated from a hospital in Banyumas, Indonesia, this morning after Friday’s earthquake.
A patient is evacuated from a hospital in Banyumas, Indonesia, this morning after Friday’s earthquake.

Java quake leaves death, destruction

JAKARTA, Indonesia — An earthquake shook Indonesia’s most populous island of Java on Friday night, collapsing buildings and killing at least 1 person.

The quake struck at 11:47 p.m. and triggered a tsunami warning for parts of Java’s coastline that was lifted about two hours later. It had a magnitude of 6.5 and was about 56 miles deep and located just inland, the U.S. Geological Survey said.

A 62-year-old man and an 80-year-old woman were killed in building collapses, said National Disaster Mitigation Agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho.

Damage was heaviest in the Tasikmalaya, Pangandaran and Ciamis regions of West Java Province near the epicenter. several cities and towns of central and western Java.

Airport knife threat suspect shot, held

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — A man was shot in the leg at Amsterdam’s busy Schiphol Airport on Friday after he walked into a military police office and threatened staff with a knife, a spokesman for the military police said.

The incident, which sparked a brief evacuation of parts of the airport, was not being treated as an extremist attack.

“The circumstances are telling us that it has nothing to do with terrorism,” said Stan Verberkt, a spokesman for the Marechaussee military police service whose armed officers patrol Schiphol.

The man was arrested and taken to an Amsterdam hospital as police began investigations at the scene and travelers who had been ushered outside were allowed back into the airport.

The military police later tweeted that the suspect was a 29-year-old man from The Hague, who was known to police due to earlier violent incidents at Schiphol. The police did not elaborate.

Aid workers flee fighting in Yemen city

SANAA, Yemen — Foreign humanitarian workers with the United Nations and other international organizations have left Yemen’s Red Sea port city of Hodeida because of intensified fighting there, Yemeni officials said Friday.

Their departure came as Yemen’s Shiite rebels, known as Houthis, stepped up fighting with forces loyal to the internationally recognized government of President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi along the Red Sea coast of Hodeida and western Yemen.

Local employees with the U.N. and other organizations are now doing the humanitarian work in rebel-held Hodeida, a lifeline for most of Yemen’s population, said the officials.

Hadi’s forces, backed by a Saudi-led coalition, have made military advances over the past week, capturing several rebel-held areas, including the coastal district of al-Khoukha, about 84 miles from Hodeida.

The Houthis, however, claimed their forces were able to regain control of some areas captured by Hadi.

Oust president, 27 officials in Peru say

LIMA, Peru — Lawmakers in Peru initiated impeachment proceedings Friday against President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, who is accused of failing to disclose decade-old payments from a Brazilian company embroiled in Latin America’s biggest corruption scandal.

In a special session Friday, 27 of 130 members of congress put forward a request to consider impeaching the president, who has defiantly denied wrongdoing.

“I’m not running and I’m not hiding because I have no reason to,” the former Wall Street investor said in a televised address late Thursday, vowing to produce his personal banking records for public scrutiny.

Kuczynski said he had no management duties in his consulting firm between 2004 and 2007 when it received $782,000 from consortiums led by Odebrecht, the Brazilian company. During much of that time, he was a Cabinet minister in a previous government that awarded the Brazilian company a major highway contract.

Kuczynski also said all of the payments were made to his business partner at the firm, Westfield Capital.

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AP/MARTIN MEJIA

Lawmaker Rosa Bartra (center) attends a special session Friday in which Peru’s Congress approved impeachment proceedings against President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski.

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