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PHOENIX AP 鈥?Arizona can enforce a near-total ban on abortions that has been blocked for nearly 50 years, a judge ruled Friday, meaning clinics statewide will have to stop providing the procedures to avoid the filing of criminal charges against doctors and other medical
stanley cup workers.The judge lifted a decades-old injunction that has long blocked enforcement of the law on the books since before Arizona became a state that bans nearly all abortions. The only exemption is if the womans life is in jeopardy.The ruling means people seeking abortions will have to go to another state to obtain one. An appeal of the ruling is likely.The decision from Pima County Superior Court Judge Kellie Johnson came more than a month after she heard arguments on Republican Attorney General Mark Brnovichs request to lift the injunction. It had been
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TOKYO AP 鈥?Japanese prosecutors on Thursday raided the Tokyo home of former Nissan Chairman Carlos Ghosn after he skipped bail and fled to Lebanon befor
adidas originals e his trial on financial misconduct charges.Tokyo prosecutors and police did not immediately comment. Japanese
stanley cup media showed investigators entering the home, which was Ghosn third residence in Tokyo since he was first arrested a year ago. Authorities have now searched each one.Government offices in Japan are closed this week for the New Year holidays.It is unclear how Ghosn avoided the tight surveillance he was under in Japan and showed up in Lebanon.Ghosn said Tuesday in a statement that he left for Lebanon because he thought the Japanese judicial system was unjust, and he wanted to avoid political persecution. He said he would talk to reporters next week.Japan does not have an extradition treaty with Lebanon.Lebanon has said Ghosn entered the country legally, and there was no reason to take action against him.The Lebanese minister for presidential affairs, Selim Jreissati, told the An-Nahar newspaper that Ghosn entered legally at the airport with a French passport and Lebanese ID.Ghosn lawyers in Japan said they had no knowledge of
salomon the escape and they had all his passports. Ghosn has French, Lebanese and Brazilian citizenship.Japanese public broadcaster NHK TV, without identifying sources, reported Thursday that Ghosn had two French passports.Earlier Japanese reports said there were no official reco
