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BEIJING (Reuters) - China will complete by mid-April the formation of new government departments announced as part of a sweeping restructuring plan ratified by parliament, state television reported late on Saturday citing comments from Vice Premier Han Zheng. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2pWAQVX

BEIJING (Reuters) - Namibia President Hage Geingob said China is not colonizing Africa and that growing cooperation between the world's No. 2 economy and Africa benefits both sides, China's official Xinhua News Agency reported on Saturday. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2pUF1Sa

HONG KONG (Reuters) - A looming deal between the Vatican and China is causing divisions between the church hierarchy and Catholics in Hong Kong, which has long been a vital beachhead for the faith on the southern edge of officially atheist China. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2J7KnCw

SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea and the United States kicked off their annual joint military exercises on Sunday after they were delayed by about a month for the Winter Olympics and to help create conditions for a resumption of talks between North and South Korea. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2GZw8ip

CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela arrested five state police officials for their alleged role in a riot and fire that killed 68 people in an overcrowded police station cell, the country's public prosecutor said on Saturday. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2pTwzDI

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Moscow has told Britain it must cut just over 50 more of its diplomatic and technical staff in Russia as a standoff deepened over the poisoning of a Russian former spy and his daughter in England, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Saturday. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2E9TGOu

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis on Saturday led an Easter vigil service, baptizing eight adults, including a formerly undocumented Nigerian migrant beggar who became a hero when he disarmed an Italian thief wielding a cleaver. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2J6H1Qh

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The International Criminal Court on Saturday said it has taken into custody at its detention center in the Netherlands of a Malian man accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2pTormv

SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazil's presidential palace confirmed on Saturday Gilberto Occhi, chief executive officer of state-run bank Caixa Econômica Federal [CEF.UL], as the country's new health minister. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2Ea510X

GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli troops shot and wounded about 70 Palestinians among crowds demonstrating at the Gaza-Israel border on Saturday, health officials said, after one of the deadliest days of unrest in the area in years. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2IiPa2M

ROME (Reuters) - Italy on Saturday protested to France over a incident in which French border police entered a clinic run by a non-governmental organization that cares for migrants trying to cross the Alps, the foreign ministry said. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2GFFrpV

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian authorities on Saturday arrested billionaire Ziyavudin Magomedov on charges of embezzling more than $35 million, in one of the highest-profile prosecutions of a Russian tycoon in years. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2Ii1Tm5

AMMAN (Reuters) - The Syrian army command said on Saturday it has regained most of the towns and villages in eastern Ghouta and was pressing its military operations in the last rebel bastion of Douma. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2GILzO5