Macedonia and Kosovo settle border dispute

Macedonia and Kosovo have settled a long-running border dispute, the two governments said on Saturday, paving the way for them to establish full diplomatic ties. Parliamentarians in Kosovo voted Saturday to approve the deal, struck late on Friday, with 81 of the 120 members backing the motion. Their counterparts in Macedonia later ratified the agreement by a vote of 72 to 11 in the 120-member chamber.. No further details were released on the border deal but Kosovo's Prime Minister Hashim Thaci said earlier on Saturday that it respected "the principles of sovereignty, territorial integrity, political independence and the peaceful settlement of disputes."