China, Tajikistan sign border agreement

• China confirmed Thursday it has signed a border treaty with Tajikistan settling a long-running land dispute between the neighbors.
• Tajikistan's parliament voted on Wednesday to turn over 386 square miles (1,000 square kilometers) of territory in the Central Asian nation's sparsely populated Pamir Mountains region to China. There was no immediate information on how many people live in the territory to be ceded.
• The dispute dates to the 19th century, when Tajikistan was part of czarist Russia.