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FILE - A Sunday, Jan. 26 , 2014 from files showing President of AS Monaco Dmitry Rybolovlev, left, and Prince Albert II Of Monaco, as they attend the French League One soccer match Monaco vs Marseille, in Monaco stadium. A Swiss court has ordered Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev to pay $4.5 billion to his ex-wife, in what could end up being the biggest divorce settlement in history. In papers delivered to the parties Monday, May 19, 2014, the Geneva Tribunal of First Instance said the 47-year-old Rybolovlev, a co-owner of the French soccer club AS Monaco, must pay 4,020,555,987.80 Swiss francs ($4,509,375,184.80) to ex-wife Elena Rybolovleva, also 47, of Geneva. The judgment shows that his wife also won two pieces of real estate in the ultra-wealthy area of Geneva known as Cologny, where the couple once lived together, and confirmed her custody of their 13-year-old daughter Anna. They also have an older daughter, Ekaterina, after meeting as university students in Perm, Russia, and marrying there in 1987. The divorce case began in 2008, when Forbes estimated his worth at $12.8 billion. (AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau)

Russian oligarch faces $4.5 billion Swiss divorce

John Heilprin · May 19, 2014 8:47 pm

Swiss voters reject minimum wage, fighter jets

John Heilprin · May 18, 2014 4:05 pm

Des personnes defilent avec des banderoles pour l' initiative sur le salaire minimum a 4000frs lors de la manifestation du 1er Mai, la fete du travail, ce mercredi 1 mai 2014 dans les rues de Lausanne. (KEYSTONE/Laurent Gillieron)

Demonstrators demand on placards a monthly salary of at least 4'000 Swiss Francs, Thursday 1 May 2014, in Lausanne, Switzerland. Swiss people will vote on the minimum wage initiative Sunday May 18. (KEYSTONE/Laurent Gillieron)

Swiss mull creation of world’s top minimum wage

John Heilprin · May 16, 2014 4:16 pm

In this Tuesday, April 29, 2014 photo, a Syrian displaced woman prepares food for her family outside their tent, at a Syrian refugee camp, near the eastern town of Kab Elias, Lebanon. Syrian refugees in Lebanon say they must pay bribes to middlemen ranging from $3 to $100 to receive aid, adding another layer of suffering for those fleeing the war, according to a series of interviews with refugees in a tent encampment near the eastern Lebanese town of Kab Elias this month. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

National Security

UN: Wars internally displace 33.3 million in 2013

John Heilprin · May 14, 2014 10:20 am

UN debates future ban on killer robots

John Heilprin · May 13, 2014 2:21 pm

Christoph Blocher posiert hinter einem Vorhang am Freitag, 9. Mai 2014, in seinem Buero in Maennerdorf, am Zuerichsee. Blocher tritt per Ende Mai 2014 als Nationalrat zurÃ¼ck. Dies gab der Zuercher SVP-Nationalrat und alt Bundesrat am Freitag, 9. Mai 2014 auf seinem Internetportal ''teleblocher'' bekannt (KEYSTONE/Gaetan Bally)

Prominent Swiss lawmaker resigns to fight EU links

John Heilprin · May 9, 2014 4:51 pm

Lights! Camera! A Swiss museum for Charlie Chaplin

John Heilprin · May 7, 2014 5:27 pm

Archbishop Silvano M. Tomasi, Apostolic Nuncio, Permanent Observer of the Holy See (Vatican) to the Office of the United Nations in Geneva, delivers his statement during the UN torture committee hearing on the Vatican, at the headquarters of the office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in the Palais Wilson, in Geneva, Switzerland, Monday, May 5, 2014. The UN Committee Against Torture hears the Holy See for the first time to consider whether the church's handling of child sexual abuse complaints has violated its obligations against subjecting minors to torture and to hear the Vatican on its efforts to stamp out child sex abuse by priests. (AP Photo/Keystone, Salvatore Di Nolfi)

At UN, Vatican sex abuse compared with torture

John Heilprin · May 5, 2014 8:25 pm

Russia challenges EU energy market rules

John Heilprin · May 1, 2014 2:16 pm

FILE - In this Nov. 21, 2013 file photo Guinean President Alpha Conde addresses reporters following his meeting with French President Francois Hollande at the Elysee Palace in Paris. Conde says Wednesday, April 30, 2014, Brazilian mining giant Vale did nothing wrong and is free to reapply to acquire rights to one of the largest untapped iron ore deposits in the world. He says Vale "was not part of the corruption" that remains under U.S. investigation and led the West African country Guinea to revoke the mining licenses for Vale and its joint venture partner, Israeli billionaire Beny Steinmetz's BSG Resources, to exploit the Simandou and Zogota deposits. (AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere, File)

Guinea leader: No wrongdoing by Brazil mining firm

John Heilprin · April 30, 2014 4:58 pm

New drug sales help boost Novartis Q1 profit

John Heilprin · April 24, 2014 4:46 pm

FILE - The Oct. 19, 2012 file photo shows a Novartis employee in a laboratory of Novartis in Prangins near Nyon, Switzerland. Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis AG announced a series of multibillion-dollar deals Tuesday, April 22, 2014 with other major pharmaceutical companies that it said would reduce sales but boost profitability, while affecting some 15,000 of its employees globally. (AP Photo/Keystone, Yannick Bailly)

Novartis reshapes business with GSK, Lilly deals

John Heilprin · April 22, 2014 6:04 pm