International Top Stories from Associated Press (AP)

A judge approved a $700,000 settlement between McDonald's and members of the Michigan Muslim community who claimed that a Detroit-area restaurant served food falsely advertised as compliant with Shariah law.

The Ivory Coast envoy to the United Nations said that if peacekeepers leave, then surveillance drones should be made available to patrol and protect along the Liberian border. The envoy, Youssoufou Bamba, made the statements to the Security Council this week.

With the nation on edge from deadly terrorist bombings in Boston and suspicious letters mailed to Washington officials, the White House said Wednesday it's premature to speculate that America is under attack. "Before we speculate, before we make connections that we don't know exist, as the FBI has said, we need to get the facts," said White House spokesman Jay Carney. "First things first."

Saudi Arabia has put in motion a tough new illegal immigration policy that cracks down on businesses and fines them for hiring undocumented workers. The country has hired 1,000 inspectors to check on small business hiring practices and ensure foreigners aren't working illegally, Reuters reported.

CAIRO (AP) , In an April 16 story about Egypt's economy and request for an IMF loan, The Associated Press misspelled the last name of an economic expert. The correct spelling is Halime, not Haline. A corrected version of the story is below: IMF leaves Egypt after hearing from opposition

ANALYSIS/OPINION: When did we all become so bitterly political? When did vicious murder, blind terrorism, the slaughter of innocent children and cruel rampages by mad men become so divisive and partisan in America? An evil, crazed lunatic walks into an elementary school and kills 20 small children in one of the most unimaginable and savage crimes ever committed.

ATHENS, Greece (AP) , Greece promised Tuesday to stick with tough austerity measures, holding out hope for a debt relief deal with emergency creditors, but the country's prime minister conceded that the tax collection system was in need of major reform after it had "essentially collapsed."

The Pentagon is reconsidering a reduction in the number of its generals and flag officers as its active duty ranks decrease by 100,000 troops over the next five years, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said Tuesday.

A dad whose daughter had been killed in the Boston Marathon bombings Monday afternoon was told she was only injured after doctors confused her identity with a friend who survived. "We had the doctors come out and tell us everything they did (on the survivor) , and it wasn't our daughter," William Campbell Jr. told the New York Daily News.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) , A multimillion-dollar horse racing and breeding operation run from an Oklahoma ranch was actually a front for a notorious Mexican cartel to launder millions of dollars in drug money, prosecutors alleged Tuesday at the beginning of a trial for five defendants charged in the scheme.

The Pentagon will decide in the next two or three weeks whether it will require its 800,000 civilian workers to take unpaid leave this year, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel told Congress on Tuesday.

Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew warned Congress on Tuesday against taking drastic austerity measures to lower the nation's ballooning debt, saying the federal government also must spend money on job growth-related programs for the economy to fully recover.

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) , Pakistani judges on Tuesday disqualified former President Pervez Musharraf from running in the upcoming parliamentary election, a blow to the former military ruler who recently returned from self-imposed exile to make a political comeback, lawyers said.

In what Sen. Ted Cruz is calling a Freudian slip, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid referred to the gun-control bill he brought to the Senate floor as "anti-gun legislation." "On the anti-gun legislation...

Shariah police ticketed 35 women in Indonesia Friday for straddling motorcycles in the latest crackdown on non-Islamic behavior. The Shariah police were conducting checks in Aceh's city of Lhokseumawe to monitor the administration's bylaw that prohibits female passengers from straddling motorcycles.