BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) – Hungary and Slovakia have agreed to build a pipeline that will transport oil products like gasoline and diesel in what Slovakia’s Energy Ministry on Tuesday called a step toward improving the stability of fuel supplies in the region.

The idea sounds outlandish, if not downright impossible. Leaders at the World Anti-Doping Agency are considering adopting a rule that could bar President Donald Trump and all U.S. government officials from attending major international events – even if they take place on American soil. A few coming up are as big as they get: this summer’s World Cup.

Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad:

HAVANA (AP) – Large parts of Cuba were without power on Tuesday after its third blackout in four months underscored the island’s deepening energy and economic crises and rising political tensions with U.S. President Donald Trump.

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) – Ecuador’s president on Tuesday rejected allegations that his country is bombing targets in neighboring Colombia as tensions escalate between the two South American nations.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) – More than three decades after Lindsey Graham first arrived in Washington, he has everything he could ever want. The senator has President Donald Trump’s ear, a war in Iran and a well-funded path to reelection in his home state of South Carolina.

GENEVA (AP) – The U.N. human rights office on Tuesday expressed concerns about possible “ethnic cleansing,” denouncing an acceleration of Israeli settlements and displacements of thousands of Palestinians in large parts of the occupied West Bank that has grown “more relentless” in recent months.

ROME (AP) – The Vatican appeals tribunal declared a mistrial Tuesday in the Holy See’s big “trial of the century,” a stunning blow to both Pope Francis’ legacy and Vatican prosecutors who had put a cardinal and several other people on trial over alleged financial crimes.