PRAGUE -- The Czech president said Wednesday he was ready to swear in populist billionaire Andrej Babiš as prime minister within a week if the businessman clarifies how he plans to avoid a conflict of interest that will arise from his private dealings and his new political status.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and the premier of Canada’s oil rich province of Alberta have agreed to work toward building a pipeline to the Pacific Coast to diversify the country’s oil exports beyond the United States,

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese married his partner Jodie Haydon in a secretive and intimate ceremony on Saturday at his official residence in the national capital, Canberra. Albanese is the first prime minister to marry while in office in the 124-year history of the Australian federal government.

Thai Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul has outlined recovery and compensation plans for the southern part of the country, where severe flooding has killed at least 162 people

For the first time in nearly a quarter of a century, the twin-island of St. Vincent and the Grenadines in the eastern Caribbean is expected to be governed by someone other than Ralph Gonsalves.

Former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has been sentenced to death over a deadly crackdown on anti-government protests last year.

Soldiers in Guinea-Bissau have appointed a close ally of the deposed president as prime minister after seizing power following disputed elections.

Sheikh Hasina, the ousted former Prime Minister of Bangladesh, has been sentenced to death by a special tribunal on charges of crimes against humanity in relation to the fatal crackdown on a student uprising last year that led to the end of her 15-year rule.

David Cameron has announced that he was diagnosed with prostate cancer. The former U.K. prime minister, 59, said he went in for a test for the disease at the urging of his wife.