The request includes blocking funding to combat HIV/AIDS and for contributing to the World Health Organization and providing media services to U.S. consumers.

President Donald Trump asked Congress on Tuesday to rescind more than $9 billion in funding it already approved for public broadcasters, foreign aid and global health efforts, taking aim at those initiatives as “wasteful” and “woke.

Israel has suggested that it will block a ship carrying activists including Greta Thunberg from delivering aid to Gaza. The climate campaigner set sail from a port in Sicily on Sunday with 11 other activists to deliver a “symbolic” amount of aid to the enclave,

Activist Greta Thunberg joined an aid ship to hand out survival supplies to Gaza survivors.