High Street mini-marts selling cocaine and cannabis, BBC secret filming reveals | BBC News

From BBC News. Cocaine, cannabis, laughing gas and prescription pills are being offered for sale in mini-marts on UK High Streets, a BBC investigation has revealed. They were readily offered to our undercover researchers who secretly filmed in shops across four neighbouring West Midlands towns. Across the country, shopfronts are being exploited by organised criminal…

EU approves €90bn loan for Ukraine | BBC News

From BBC News. Ukraine says it has resumed pumping Russian oil through a pipeline into Hungary and Slovakia, bringing to an end months of deadlock over a €90bn (£78bn) loan seen as vital European Union support for Kyiv. Soon afterwards, EU ambassadors meeting in Brussels gave preliminary approval to the loan, as well as a…