More than 400 people were arrested in London on Saturday during a tense protest in support of the Palestine Action group, which has been banned under terror laws, police said.

Several hundred people demonstrated in front of the UK parliament, with some holding placards that read: "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action."

The capital's Metropolitan Police force (Met) had warned people that it would not hesitate to arrest anyone who explicitly expressed support for the prohibited group.

By Vitalii Yalahuzian and Yann Tessier

LONDON (Reuters) -British police arrested dozens more people on Saturday under anti-terrorism laws for demonstrating in support of Palestine Action, a pro-Palestinian group banned by the government as a terrorist organisation.

Britain banned Palestine Action under anti-terrorism legislation in July after some of its members broke into a Royal Air Force base and damaged military planes. The group accuses Britain's government of complicity in what it says are Israeli war crimes in Gaza.

In the remote mountain village of Tarasin in Sudan's western Darfur, three successive landslides struck without warning last week.

"The people lost everything," Francesco Lanino, operations director at Save the Children, told AFP via Zoom from Port Sudan after a team from the charity arrived in the devastated village in Sudan's Jebel Marra region.

Torrential rains had saturated the mountains above and when the hillside finally gave way, it collapsed in seconds -- burying homes, livestock and entire families under a tide of mud.

(Reuters) -The Israel-Premier Tech cycling team have removed their full name from riders' jerseys for the rest of the Vuelta a Espana after pro-Palestinian protesters disrupted the finish on stage 11.

Wednesday's stage ended without a winner after organisers decided to take the time at three kilometres before the line as police struggled to contain hundreds of Palestinian flag-waving protesters in Bilbao.

The Israel-Premier Tech team were also stopped on the road by a group of protesters holding Palestinian flags during last week's team time trial in Figueres.

CAIRO (Reuters) -Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty said on Saturday that describing the displacement of Palestinians as voluntary is "nonsense".

Israel earlier called on Gaza City residents to leave for the south, as its forces advance deeper into the enclave’s largest urban area.

(Reporting by Ahmed Tolba and Jaidaa Taha; Editing by Jan Harvey)

An Israeli strike flattened a high-rise in Gaza City on Saturday -- the second in as many days -- after the military warned people to move to a "humanitarian zone" ahead of a planned offensive against the urban hub.

Israel has been warning for weeks of a new assault on the territory's largest city, without issuing a timeline.

It has stepped up air strikes and ground operations on the city's outskirts, sparking fears it could worsen already dire conditions.

BEIRUT (Reuters) -Hezbollah official Mahmoud Qmati told Reuters on Saturday that the group considered Friday’s cabinet session on an army plan to establish a state monopoly on arms "an opportunity to return to wisdom and reason, preventing the country from slipping into the unknown".

Lebanon's cabinet on Friday welcomed a plan by the army that would disarm Hezbollah and said the military would begin executing it, without setting a timeframe for implementation and cautioning that the army had limited capabilities.

CAIRO (Reuters) -The Israeli military said early on Saturday it was establishing a humanitarian zone in the Al-Mawasi area of Gaza's Khan Younis, as it plans to expand military activities in the enclave.

The military said the area will include infrastructure such as field hospitals, water pipelines, desalination facilities, and food supplies. A spokesperson for the military called on Gaza residents to evacuate to the area.

(Reporting by Mayaan Lubell and Alexander Cornwell; Editing by Jan Harvey)

By Jonathan Landay

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Nearly a week after an earthquake killed more than 2,200 people in Afghanistan and left tens of thousands homeless, the United States has not taken the first step to authorize emergency aid, and it was unclear if it plans to help at all, two former senior U.S. officials and a source familiar with the situation told Reuters.

By Trevor Hunnicutt and Kanishka Singh

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday that Washington was in "very deep" negotiations with Palestinian militant group Hamas and urged them to release all hostages held in Gaza.

"We are in very deep negotiation with Hamas," Trump told reporters, saying the situation will be "tough" and "nasty" if Hamas continues to hold Israeli hostages.