QUICK HITS

1 Church threat: Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte’s spokesman is warning the government will forcibly close Roman Catholic churches in the capital if priests proceed with a plan to hold masses. That plan is in defiance of new restrictions against public meetings, including religious gatherings, to ease an alarming surge in coronavirus infections.

2 President gets vaccine: South Korean President Moon Jae-in has received his first shot of Astrazeneca’s vaccine as he plans to attend June’s Group of Seven meetings in Britain. Moon on Tuesday received his shot at a public health office in downtown Seoul along with his wife and other presidential officials who plan to accompany him to the June 1113 meetings.

3 War crimes: Ethiopia’s leader Tuesday said atrocities have been committed in Tigray, his first public acknowledgment of possible war crimes in the country’s northern region where fighting persists as government troops hunt down its fugitive leaders.

4 Attacks in Yemen: Saudi-led coalition warplanes struck military positions belonging to Iranbacked rebels in Yemen’s capital, hours after the kingdom proposed a negotiated end to a war that has raged for six years and created the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.

5 Deadly fire: A devastating fire that tore through a sprawling Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh killed 15 people and left tens of thousands homeless, the United Nations said Tuesday. More than 550 people were injured and 400 remain missing. The fire began Monday afternoon at Balukhali camp, one of several such settlements in Cox’s Bazar in southern Bangladesh, which is home to nearly a million Rohingyas who fled from neighboring Myanmar.