An American Airlines plane made an emergency landing in North Carolina on Wednesday after a “rebellious” woman who was in first class angrily tried to enter the cabin because they hadn’t served her a drink.

American Eagle Flight 3444 from Jacksonville, Fla. to Washington DC was diverted to Raleigh-Durham International Airport at approximately 3:40 p.m. due to safety concerns from a reluctant customer, the airline said in a statement.

The woman, identified as Tiffany Miles, 36, was arrested and charged with misdemeanor and released on bail. the Raleigh/Wake City County Identification Office said in statements cited by CNN.

According to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) the woman stormed the cabin door, so the crew and some passengers then tried to hold her down, added the aforementioned medium.

A passenger named Kara Rosario confirmed to ABC 11 that Miles was angry that her drink wasn’t served, adding that another passenger stood up to help flight attendants when they tried to calm the woman down.

“He heard the commotion and went into first grade to help and see if there was anything he could help with,” Rosario said. “He wasn’t a sheriff or a cop, just a citizen trying to defuse the situation. You could feel we were in it together and ready to do whatever it took, but the gentleman behind me got up first and took matters into his own hands.”

In addition, the FBI field police in Charlotte responded to the incident that occurred, it remains to be seen whether federal charges will be filed against the woman.

“The FBI is currently conducting fact-gathering interviews and will be consulting with the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina to determine whether federal indictments will be filed,” said FBI spokeswoman Shelley Lynch.

For his part, United States Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg said on his Twitter account that he had been notified of what the FAA says was a “Level 4 disruption” to the flight “attempted or actual flight deck violation”.

The FAA said it is working on a rule that would require new planes to have a second cockpit barrier.

“Last year we made progress to require new aircraft to have a second flight deck barrier after the rule stalled under the previous government. We are working quickly to issue the final rule,” the agency said in a statement.

With information from the New York Post

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Images have been circulating on social media for several days: empty shelves where tomatoes, cucumbers and salads are sold in supermarkets. Some chains are rationing vegetables if they are available. And Conservative Agriculture Minister Therese Coffey had to admit that the problem would drag on for at least a few more weeks.

The explanation for the misery: crop failures due to exceptionally cold weather in the growing regions of Spain and Morocco. “We can’t control the weather in Spain,” Minister Coffey told the annual meeting of the NFU farmers’ association. Crop failure would simply be part of the nature of agriculture. Weather is indeed a factor, experts stressed, but there are hardly any signs of it across Europe.

Prolonged vegetable crisis warning

British vegetable and fruit producers are warning of a long crisis amid supply problems for some groceries. Some produce won’t be available until May, according to the Lea Valley Growers Association (LVGA). The main reason is the extremely bad climate in the growing areas. Added to this is the increase in transport costs due to high energy prices.

Conservatives for austerity and turnips

In general, the Conservatives, who promised even better and cheaper food in their Brexit campaign, are idiosyncratically reacting to their otherwise represented positions and are propagating reduced consumption and regionality: Conservative MP Selaine Saxby suggested not so many foods imported how much in January and February eat salad. “Supermarkets are still importing a lot of produce for us and … we really should be eating more seasonally and supporting our own British farmers,” she said.

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Coffey repeated, “It is important that we appreciate the specialties that we have in this country.” A lot of people would be eating beets right now and not necessarily thinking about lettuce, tomatoes and the like. And rationing would only affect some fruits and vegetables anyway.

“Let them eat turnips,” headlined the Daily Mirror, traditionally close to Labour, on Friday, echoing Marie-Antoinette’s bread and cake quote. At the latest, when she declared the British food supply chain to be “extremely resilient”, she might have gone too far.

“Blatant political failure”

Clive Black, an analyst at Shore Capital, wrote in a piece published on Thursday that the shortage of lettuce in supermarkets in Britain is due to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs doing “virtually nothing”, according to The Guardian, to help producers. He saw a “blatant political failure”.

For example, the government excluded vegetable growers from energy subsidies, despite rising electricity and gas prices after the start of the Russian war against Ukraine. The use of greenhouses to grow tomatoes, for example, is no longer worthwhile in winter. “They don’t grow as much here anymore because it’s uneconomical,” Adam Leyland, editor-in-chief of industry publication The Grocer, told the BBC.

Missing Harvest Helpers

Another reason is the lack of seasonal workers who would otherwise travel to harvest from EU countries such as Romania. The reason for this is stricter rules for workers after leaving the EU.

Justin King, former chief executive of supermarket chain Sainsbury’s, also said the country’s problems were self-imposed. “We are exclusively dependent on imports at this time of year. There is a real shortage, but we have created this problem for ourselves.” He also pointed out that British gardeners were let down. “It is a sector that has been significantly affected by Brexit,” he added.

After Brexit as a less attractive market for manufacturers

Britain now has to import around 95% of its winter tomatoes. And once there is a shortage, producers are more likely to deliver into the large EU economic area than the comparatively smaller UK market. In light of rising transport costs, longer distances are also a factor.

While Conservatives claim the shortage is not Brexit-related, some suppliers have told British media that higher costs and red tape caused by Brexit have left the country far behind in imports from the EU and Morocco.

Producers see longer crisis

British fruit and vegetable growers were skeptical about Minister Coffey’s announcement that the crisis would end in two to four weeks. At least from Britain itself, the bottleneck cannot be removed quickly. “Tomatoes, peppers and eggplants won’t be available in bulk until May, so it will take more than a few weeks,” said Lee Stiles of the Lea Valley Growers Association (LVGA), according to the BBC. To make up for the shortage, they should have planted earlier, Stiles said.

It seems hard to believe living in a country as rich as Brazil, but the Brits are struggling to find it fruits and vegetables fresh in the supermarket. In the UK, bodies make rules such as rationing and limit products per person.

Read more: Finally, what to expect from the Brazilian climate with the end of La Niña?

Large chain stores have announced that each customer can only buy two packs of common everyday items such as tomatoes, lettuce, cucumbers, peppers, broccoli, cauliflower and raspberries. The information comes from the British newspaper The Guardian.

The supply of fruit and vegetables that led to the emptying of the shelves is the result of unfavorable weather conditions in Europe and North Africa. Many point to Brexit as the culprit for the situation, but the case is more complex.

According to experts, other countries in the bloc, such as Ireland and France, are also facing shortages. The UK and some European Union countries import much of their vegetables from warmer countries such as Spain, Morocco, Tunisia and Egypt.

To make matters worse, domestic producers are dissatisfied with high production costs. Spending on heating greenhouses has made it impossible to grow various vegetables, according to the National Union of Farmers (NFU), which represents the category in England and Wales.

The result is that product shortages are likely to continue for a few more weeks as consumers fear a potential buying rush that could push prices higher. Last week, a customer who tried to take home 100 pickles was even banned from a supermarket.

A year after invading Ukraine, the three blocs into which global diplomacy is divided (the West, the global South, and Russia with its few satellites) have not moved an iota, nor have they managed to gain support for their respective ones to win requests. The lack of understanding was made clear at the extraordinary session of the UN Security Council, held in New York this Friday. Positions seem even more bitter, even with episodes of tension such as the gesture by Russian Ambassador Vasili Nebenzia, when, in the face of Ukraine’s requested minute’s silence for victims, he suggested extending one to “all victims since 2014”, when the conflict in of eastern Ukraine began. Nebenzia finally joined and stood up, but her initial protest, banging on the table, showed that the attempt to reconcile the positions seems a long way off. The Council, theoretical guarantor of world peace and the international security, is still blocked.

China’s 12-point peace plan, unveiled in Beijing this Friday and met with skepticism from the West for allegedly leaning towards the Kremlin, has not monopolized the session, barring veiled innuendoes from countries in the Global South about the need for dialogue – Brazil condemned “the triumphalist rhetoric of both parties” – and the Chinese ambassador himself, Dai Bing, who did not elaborate on the content of his country’s so-called “political positioning” to resolve the conflict. Based on a ceasefire, the end of sanctions against Russia and respect for territorial integrity, the proposal carries the same message that supports China’s position in the face of the crisis: profile abstaining while condemning the war.

With the participation of the head of European diplomacy, Josep Borrell, the appeal only managed to broadcast the symbolism of the date to the world without new ideas or suggestions. Russia has once again dubbed the Ukrainian government the “Kiev regime” and brandished Cold War ghosts (“What you call peace is the destruction of Russia,” Nebenzia said). The Global South continues to abstain from voting against Russia or in favor of Ukraine, as well as from its criticism of Moscow and Western arms shipments, an equidistance exercise also joined by Hungary this week, breaking the European Union’s unanimity on which the Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba replied: “Arming a country to defend itself against aggression is perfectly legitimate; otherwise it is a crime.”

Finally, Russia, which the previous day had supported just six countries in voting on a General Assembly resolution, again waved the usual list of grievances, including procedural grievances on the agenda, in addition to repeating that Moscow does not want the “destruction of Ukraine.” , but to eliminate threats such as “genocide and marginalization of Russian speakers” in eastern Ukraine, a pretext the Kremlin has been repeating since 2014. “The Kiev regime is sacrificing its own people to serve the interests of the West, and the situation is changing worse when Ukraine is armed,” Nebenzia said in a reply.

Speaking at the meeting were the fifteen members of the Security Council and long fifteen European foreign ministers, including Britain’s James Cleverly and France’s Catherine Colonna, as well as US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who attributed all responsibility to Vladimir Putin: “One man started this war and [solo] one man can end it.” “If we give up Ukraine, we also give up the Charter of the United Nations,” added Blinken, who once again laid the foundation for any solution: “Sovereignty, territorial integrity, independence” of Ukraine.

Russia’s right of veto

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The speech by the head of Ukraine’s diplomacy provoked angry procedural complaints from Nebenzia, the tough and experienced Russian ambassador, on his second day as Sergei Lavrov, when Russia’s current foreign minister headed his country’s delegation to the UN. Lavrov’s absence from New York this Friday, perhaps more prominently at a meeting chaired by his counterparts, was highlighted by Spanish Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares in an appearance to journalists after the meeting. An absence that shows not only Russia’s isolation, Albares said, but also the fact that it “does not want to hear the voice of diplomacy, as it has always chosen the voice of arms.” For Albares, Moscow has “resoundingly” lost the diplomatic battle.

In turn, Nebenzia’s words were met with similar sharpness by the Ukrainian minister. “Putin will lose [la guerra] much sooner than you think; The more they attack us, the more we resist,” shouted an energetic Kuleba, stressing that the aggressive action goes well beyond Russia and extends “to Africa, Asia and the Middle East.” “Russia is the world’s problem,” Kuleba declared, recalling that in 1991, the year of the collapse of the USSR, the Russian Federation inherited the seat as a permanent member of the Security Council. The inherent veto power blocks executive action at the UN’s highest forum, an obstacle that many member countries of the organization have since denounced.

In this regard, Minister Albares condemned the carte blanche that implies such a prerogative by preventing the Council from exercising its “primary function” of ensuring global peace and security. No country should have the opportunity to abuse this right for its own purposes, “as if it were a blank check,” said the foreign minister.

Among all the messages of the extraordinary Council, that of the Hungarian Foreign Minister, Péter Szijjártó, resonated even more, if possible, because it opens a rift in European integration. Szijjártó underscored his country’s humanitarian role “with 1,300 schools open to refugees,” stressing: “This war has no winners, only losers, and the more losers there are, the more suffering. But with guns and sanctions [los pilares de la UE hacia Ucrania] lives are not saved. We have been criticized for this position (…) We are in the 25th hour. We must end the war, prevent it from becoming a third world war. Szijjártó’s words are interpreted by some as a leak in the European response.

The severe food crisis caused by the blockade of the Black Sea ports in the first months of the war also drew the Forum’s attention. António Guterres announced he would seek an extension of the Turkey-sponsored so-called Black Sea Agreement to expand shipping of cargo ships carrying grain and fertilizers after March, the months-long blockade of which threatened to trigger mass starvation in the Global South. Guterres also called for an agreement between the parties to establish a security zone around the Zaporizhia power plant to avoid “catastrophic consequences” for humanity. They were the only two concrete proposals from the meeting.

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