Hecklers jeered Francois Hollande during war commemorations Tuesday, marring Remembrance Day and piling further misery on France's most unpopular president on record.

The unusual incident, which was condemned by the government and part of the opposition, came amid mounting nationwide discontent over stinging unemployment and rising taxes.

The Vatican on Monday announced it is donating $150,000 (112,000 euro) in emergency aid to the Philippines after Super Typhoon Haiyan devastated entire communities and left more than 10,000 people feared dead.

"Following the Haiyan Typhoon... the Holy Father has decided to send a first contribution of 150,000 dollars to help the population", the Vatican said in a statement.

At least 100 people are feared dead in a ferocious storm battering Somalia's northeastern Puntland region, the local government said Monday, warning that hundreds more are missing.

The government in the semi-autonomous region described the situation as a "disaster", with entire villages destroyed, and said it was appealing for emergency international aid.

Iran and Britain on Monday named non-resident charges d'affaires to each other's capital, in moves aimed at restoring diplomatic ties severed after the British embassy was ransacked in 2011.

Mohammad Hassan "Habibollah-zadeh will travel to London in the near future to examine the situation of Iran's possessions and buildings in Britain and to improve consular activities," a foreign ministry spokeswoman said, quoted by Fars news agency.

Gale-force winds hit northern Croatia on Monday, leaving one man dead and at least a dozen people injured and disrupting road and sea traffic.

Along the northern Adriatic coast, winds were gusting up to 221 kilometers (136 miles) an hour, halting ferry services and closing bridges linking the islands of Krk and Pag, officials said.

The Taliban Monday warned an upcoming elders' assembly against endorsing a deal allowing U.S. troops to stay in Afghanistan after 2014, saying they would be punished as "traitors" if they did so.

Around 2,500 tribal elders and civil leaders are expected to take part in an assembly known as a "loya jirga" this month, to decide whether to accept the draft Bilateral Security Agreement between Afghanistan and the U.S.

U.S. Ambassador Dan Shapiro on Monday sought to quell Israeli fears over an emerging deal with Iran, vowing that Washington would never let Tehran acquire a nuclear weapon.

"On this crucial issue the U.S. and Israel share an identical agenda," Shapiro told delegates attending the General Assembly of the Jewish Federations of North America in Jerusalem.

A senior member of the Haqqani militant network which is seen as one of the biggest threats to U.S.-led forces in Afghanistan has been shot dead in the Pakistani capital, the Taliban said Monday.

Unidentified gunmen attacked Nasiruddin Haqqani, the group's chief fundraiser and son of its founder, on the edge of Islamabad on Sunday evening, the militants told AFP.

Four men charged in connection with Kenya's Westgate mall massacre in September appeared in court on Monday, with defense lawyers and prosecutors arguing over if they should be granted bail.

All four have pleaded not guilty to the charges of "supporting a terrorist group", as well as entering Kenya illegally and obtaining false identification documents. The Westgate attack, which left at least 67 people dead, was claimed by Somalia's Al-Qaida-linked Shebab rebels.

The United States, Australia and the United Nations mobilized emergency aid to the Philippines as the scale of the devastation unleashed by Super Typhoon Haiyan emerged Monday.

The Pentagon sent Marines and equipment to assist with the relief effort following the typhoon, which may have killed more than 10,000 people in what is feared to be the country's worst natural disaster.