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Viewing the sands of time Visitors look at the sand figure featuring famed French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte at the sand sculpture festival “Sand World” in Luebeck-Travemuende, Germany, on Tuesday. The festival profiles celebrities and important works of the past, all made out of sand. Viewing the sands of time

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SINGAPORE
Gore bashes energy firms
Former Vice President Al Gore said Tuesday that some of the world’s largest energy companies, including Exxon Mobil Corp., are funding research aimed at disputing the scientific consensus on global warming as part of a campaign to mislead the public.
ExxonMobil, the world’s largest publicly traded oil company, rejected the allegation.
“There has been an organized campaign, financed to the tune of about $10 million a year from some of the largest carbon polluters, to create the impression that there is disagreement in the scientific community” about global warming, Gore said at a forum in Singapore. “In actuality, there is very little disagreement.”
WASHINGTON
Court overturns drug ruling
Terminally ill patients do not have a constitutional right to be treated with experimental drugs, even if they likely will be dead before the medicine is approved, a federal appeals court said Tuesday.
The ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit overturned last year’s decision by a smaller panel of the same court, which held that terminally ill patients may not be denied access to potentially lifesaving drugs.
The full court disagreed, saying in an 8-2 ruling that it would not create a constitutional right for patients to assume “any level of risk” without regard to medical testing.
“Terminally ill patients desperately need curative treatments,” Judge Thomas B. Griffith wrote for the majority. But “their deaths can certainly be hastened by the use of a potentially toxic drug with no proven therapeutic benefit.”
SAO PAULO, Brazil
Cocaine kingpin captured
A top leader of Colombia’s biggest cocaine cartel was captured Tuesday in South America’s largest city after a two-year investigation into traffickers accused of sending tons of the drug to the United States and Europe.
Juan Carlos Ramirez Abadia, who faces three U.S. federal indictments on drug and racketeering charges, was arrested just after dawn at a house in a gated community on Sao Paulo’s outskirts. U.S. officials said they would seek his extradition.
The raid was aimed at breaking up a ring that laundered drug profits in Brazil, the nation’s federal police said.
Brazilian authorities did not immediately say if he would be sent to the United States or face charges in Brazil.
LOS ANGELES
Deportment error plays out
A U.S. citizen who was wrongly deported in May was found at a border crossing and could be reunited with his family soon, an American Civil Liberties Union spokesman said Tuesday.
Superior Court Judge Carlos Chung ordered Pedro Guzman’s release at a hearing Tuesday in Lancaster. Guzman, 29, was expected to rejoin his family later in the day, according to ACLU Southern California spokesman Michael Soller.
Guzman was jailed on a misdemeanor trespassing violation and deported to Mexico on May 11, according to authorities, after he allegedly told immigration and sheriff’s officials that he was an illegal immigrant.