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The Syrian government says it will attend the Geneva talks while rejecting the exclusion of President Bashar Assad from a political transition.

?Syria\'s deputy foreign minister, Faisal Muqdad says Damascus will attend next round of talks in the Swiss city of Geneva. The negotiations -- aimed at finding a solution on to the nearly three year conflict in the country --are to begin on February 10. Earlier, the foreign-backed opposition had admitted that its delegation will take part in the talks. First round of the talks ended on January 31 with no considerable progress after Damascus rejected the opposition demand for ouster of the country\'s President Basher al-Assad.

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The military wing of Syria\'s foreign-backed opposition, known as the Free Syrian Army says it will not take part in the upcoming conference in Geneva which is aimed at ending the conflict in Syria. Mokdad told Press TV that the international community must give guarantees that President Bashar al-Assad will step down. He says the opposition, Syrian National Council will hold a vote to decide whether to take part in the conference or not. A few days ago, the leader of the FSA pledged to continue fighting despite the planned peace conference . The UN, US and Russia have been trying for months to persuade the foreign-backed opposition to attend the peace talks with the government in January. Damascus has said the Syrian people must decide on the future of the country and their government.

Anti-fascist protesters have gathered outside an Athens Supreme Court, where two alleged Golden Dawn affiliates are tried for fatally stabbing 26-year old Pakistani worker Sahzad Loukman one year ago today. The victim\'s family travelled from Pakistan to attend the trial.

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Iran\'s deputy foreign minister has described the upcoming nuclear talks with the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany as a test. Majid Takht-e Ravanchi called on the group to enter into negotiations with goodwill and avoid making unreasonable demands. The official also said Iran\'s nuclear issue has multiple and complicated aspects that are not expected to be fully resolved over a couple of meetings. A new round of talks over Iran\'s nuclear energy program is scheduled for November 20 in Geneva, Switzerland.

In Yemen, tens of thousands of Shia mourners have attended the funeral procession of Houthi lawmaker Abel Kareem Jadban in Sana\'a. Jadban\'s body was carried by his Houthi supporters to the capital\'s airport and flown to the northern province of Sa\'da for burial. Jadban was a prominent Houthi lawmaker and the leading politician representing the Shia Houthi community in the national dialog, currently underway in the Arab country. He was gunned down by armed men on a motorbike as he was coming out of a mosque last Friday. The assassination came just weeks after deadly clashes between Houthi fighters and Saudi-backed Salafi militants in the northern town of Damaj.

More than 200 high-ranking politicians, business- and government representatives came together in German capital to attend Berlin third Foreign Policy Forum. Experts discussed key questions of German and European foreign policy focusing on issues ranging rom transatlantic relations to the recent agreement on Iran\'s nuclear energy programmer reached in Geneva last weekend.

Business leaders from Turkey and Iran have gathered in Istanbul to attend the Turkish-Iranian business forum. The event is considered to be one of the most important venues that bring businessmen from the two countries together.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has launched a new effort to include Iran in the upcoming Syria peace talks in Geneva. Ban Ki-moon said that Iran needs to contribute to peace in Syria along with others in the region. He also called the division about Iranian participation unfortunate. The remarks came two days after the UN-Arab League envoy to Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi, released a list of participants for the January talks. Morocco, Algeria, South Africa, India, and Indonesia are some of the countries invited to the conference. Brahimi said that Iran is not on the list because of US opposition. Russia, which insists on Iran\\\'s participation, has criticized the US position, calling it illogical. The UN chief, however, has expressed hope that the question of Iran\\\'s participation can be resolved soon.

The UN invitation for Iran to attend the conference on the crisis in Syria has triggered immediate reactions from the US and Syria\'s foreign-backed opposition. The US State Department says the UN must take back its invitation unless Tehran publicly backs the 2012 agreement on a transition government in Syria. The U-S has been the main party opposed to Iran\'s participation in the conference. Meanwhile, Syria\'s foreign-backed opposition has reportedly said that it will withdraw from the talks now that Iran has been invited.

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