help with excluding posts from another loop

Hello everyone,

Was hoping someone could guide me on how to exclude posts in a loop that appeared in another loop on the same page.. here is an example of our front page.

http://prntscr.com/bqoeuz

As you can see the first area is the latest articles from throughout the website and the 2nd area is just the latest news..

here is the code..

<div id="featured-topics">
<?php $count = 0; ?>
<?php
    $args = array(
        'posts_per_page' => 4,
    );
    $posts = get_posts( $args ); ?>

<?php foreach (array_chunk($posts, 1, true) as $posts) : $count++; ?>

        <?php foreach( $posts as $post ) : setup_postdata($post); ?>

         <div class="column-<?php echo $count; ?>">

                  <a class="featured-<?php echo $count; ?>" href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" style="background-image: url('<?php the_post_thumbnail_url( $size ); ?>' )">

            <div class="featured-box">

               <h2 class="featuredheading-<?php echo $count; ?>"> <?php the_title(); ?> </h2>
               <p class="featured-date">By <b><?php the_author(); ?></b> | <?php the_date(); ?></p>
               <p class="date-underline"></p>

            </div> <!-- featured-box -->

                  </a> 

         </div> <!-- column/featured -->

        <?php endforeach; ?>

<?php endforeach; ?>

</div> <!-- Featured Topics -->

<div id="row-container">

<h2 class="main-heading">Latest game news</h2>

<div class="article-loop">

<?php
$args = array(
'post_type' => array( 'post'),
'posts_per_page' => 4,
'category_name' => 'news',
);
$the_query = new WP_Query( $args );
?>

<?php if ( $the_query->have_posts() ) : ?>
<?php $count = 0; ?> 

<?php while ( $the_query->have_posts() ) : $the_query->the_post(); ?>
<?php $count++; ?>
<?php if ($count == 4) : ?>
<div class="featured-article">

<a href="<?php echo the_permalink(); ?>">

   <div class="featured-thumb">

<?php
	echo get_the_post_thumbnail($post->ID, 'plant-thumb');
?> 

<span class="article-overlay">

        <h4 class="article-item-title"><?php the_title(); ?></h4>
        <p class="featured-date">By <b><?php the_author(); ?></b> | <?php the_date(); ?></p>
        <p class="date-underline"></p>

</span> <!-- article-overlay -->

   </div> <!-- featured-thumb -->

</a>

</div> <!-- featured-article -->

<div class="ad-holder">
<div class="item-ad">

<script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>
<!-- 300 x 250 -->
<ins class="adsbygoogle"
     style="display:inline-block;width:300px;height:250px"
     data-ad-client="ca-pub-7568065840567088"
     data-ad-slot="1234194857"></ins>
<script>
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});
</script>

</div>
</div>

<?php else : ?>

				<?php get_template_part( 'content-basic' ); ?>
    <?php endif; ?>
    <?php endwhile; ?>
    <?php endif; ?>

</div> <!-- articles-loop -->

How would i get it so that the latest news loop doesn’t include the posts from the featured articles above it?

thanks in advance!