The Hague, Netherlands: Chile and Bolivia have agreed on the status of a disputed cross-border river, the International Court of Justice said on Thursday (Friday in Manila), adding that judges were not required to rule on the climate-fuelled row.

The fractious South American neighbors had been battling at the UN's top court since 2016 over the River Silala, which flows from Bolivia's high-altitude wetlands into Chile's Atacama desert.

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