Moderna Inc. is asking regulators in the United States and Europe on Monday for emergency use approval for its COVID-19 vaccine, developed in cooperation with the National Institutes of Health. It reported over the weekend that final results from trials suggest its shot is 94 percent effective. Two other companies, Pfizer and its partner BioNTech, have already applied for approval of their versions of the vaccine.

Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, whom Israel suspected was the leader of Iran’s disbanded military nuclear program, died on Friday in an ambush outside of Tehran. The scientist led a program that the International Atomic Energy Agency linked to “activities relevant to the development of a nuclear explosive device” through the end of 2003. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has mentioned Fakhrizadeh in conjunction with Iran’s nuclear program in the past.

Just a trickle of shoppers wandered through Macy’s on Herald Square in New York an hour after it opened. Many stores reported—or planned for—smaller crowds on Black Friday, reflecting concerns about further spread of the coronavirus. It will still likely prove the busiest shopping day of the year.

Iranian state TV announced Wednesday the government released Kylie Moore-Gilbert, a 33-year-old British-Australian academic detained in Iran for more than two years, in exchange for three Iranians held abroad. Officials in Thailand said they transferred three Iranians involved in a 2012 foiled bomb attack back to Tehran. Moore-Gilbert arrived at the airport in Canberra on Friday afternoon and will quarantine before reentering the community, said Foreign Minister Marise Payne.

The city sheriff will set up in random locations and stop cars to make sure people are following Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s emergency travel order and quarantining when entering from certain states. The New York City sheriff’s office will announce the locations for a given day on its official Twitter page. The city describes the stops as “an educational tool,” but violation of the travel order can carry fines.

The UN Security Council met on Tuesday over the spiraling conflict in Ethiopia’s Tigray region. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed gave Tigray’s leaders 72 hours, which end Wednesday, to surrender before a tank attack on the region’s capital city of Mekele, with a population of half a million. The military said it would show civilians no mercy if they didn’t leave the area before the assault.

More than 2 million people went through screening at U.S. airports on Friday and Saturday, the Transportation Security Administration said. That’s far lower than in previous years, but it’s a large number during the pandemic and only the second time since mid-March that more than 1 million people went through daily airport screenings.