Canada should use federal powers to ease the growing economic disruption caused by the blockage of a vital US-Canada trade route by protesters opposed to coronavirus mandates, US President Joe Biden's administration has said.
More people arrived outside New Zealand's parliament as protesters calling for an end to a vaccine mandate and tough Covid-19 restrictions refused to end their demonstrations.
A US appeals court panel has declined to block a lower court ruling that President Joe Biden could not require federal employees to be vaccinated against the coronavirus.