BRUSSELS/BERLIN, March 20 (Reuters) - Germany's conservatives floated a compromise in a long-running dispute between Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban and the EU's center-right grouping that could avert his party's expulsion over concerns about Budapest's authoritarian drift.

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's government will adjust tax rebates for exports of goods and services and will strive to accomplish economic development targets for 2019, state television said on Wednesday, quoting a cabinet meeting chaired by Premier Li Keqiang.

ALGIERS (Reuters) - Algeria's army chief declared that the public has expressed "noble aims" during weeks of demonstrations against President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, his strongest signal yet that the military is distancing itself from the long-serving ruler.

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union leaders will coordinate their positions on Thursday evening on a number of issues they intend to raise with China at an April 9 summit, including tight cooperation on WTO reform and cyber-security concerns, a senior EU official said.

ALGIERS, March 20 (Reuters) - Algeria's army chief declared that the public has expressed "noble aims" during weeks of demonstrations against President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, his strongest signal yet that the military is distancing itself from the long-serving ruler.

CAPE TOWN, March 19 (Reuters) - Collectors from America and Europe are scouring Cape Town's booming art scene in search of deals as diverse as an expressive oil painting by South Africa's Irma Stern or a sculpture assembled from bottle caps by Ghana's El Anatsui.

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - EU antitrust regulators handed down a 1.49 billion euro ($1.69 billion) fine to Alphabet unit Google on Wednesday for blocking rival online search advertisers, marking the company's third penalty in two years.

PUNE, India (Reuters) - Ganesh Bhalerao is a cartoonist hoping to go viral in the battle to secure Prime Minister Narendra Modi's re-election when India votes over the next two months.

(Reuters) - The Trump administration will hold its fourth major auction for oil and gas leases in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday, in a fresh test of demand from drillers that have lately been shying away from the region.