S Korean team meets Taliban again to talk fate of 19 hostages

Afghanistan's Taliban resumed talks yesterday with a South Korean delegation trying to free 19 aid workers held by the hardliners for almost a month, a Red Cross official said.
"The parties are discussing, the meeting has started," the deputy head of the International Committee of the Red Cross delegation, Franz Rauchenstein, told AFP.
The negotiations are the first since Monday's release of two of 23 South Korean aid workers seized by the Taliban on July 19. Two others were shot dead.
Taliban spokesman Yousuf Ahmadi confirmed the talks had restarted mid-afternoon Thursday in the small town of Ghazni, about 140 kilometres (90 miles) south of Kabul.