The top humanitarian headlines from trust.org this week include:
Pakistan mourns after Taliban kill 132 students in school massacre, Paris climate summit faces tougher job after modest Lima deal, and drug-resistant malaria - is it the world's next big health crisis?
AFRICA
Ghana must cut "ghost workers" from payroll before aid resumes - EU
UN, aid groups overstretched by crisis in Congo's mining heartland
France urges closer regional collaboration against Nigeria's Boko Haram
A million displaced Nigerians unable to vote unless law changed - INEC
Kenya shuts down 500 groups in anti-terrorism crackdown
INTERVIEW-Shock treatment: what's missing from Sierra Leone's Ebola response
Mali ends last quarantines, could be Ebola-free next month
Ethiopian health workers arrive in Liberia to help fight Ebola
Saudi King gives $35 mln grant for Ebola fight
Red Cross urges vigilance to avert holiday spike in Ebola cases
Sierra Leone diamond zone hit by largely hidden Ebola outbreak
- SPOTLIGHT: Ebola outbreak in West Africa
Libya's rival parliament says open to U.N.-sponsored peace talks
Threatened African nations urge western action on Libya crisis
- SPOTLIGHT: Libya conflict
U.N. says forces in Sudan's Darfur won't leave amid rising violence
- SPOTLIGHT: Darfur conflict
U.N. brigade will need to "neutralise" Congo rebels- chief
- SPOTLIGHT: Congo (DR) conflict
Warring faction chiefs in Central African Republic must be arrested-rights group
- SPOTLIGHT: Central African Republic troubles
Sudan govt forces accused of gang rape in Blue Nile state
Sudan ceasefire talks end without deal as violence increases
- SPOTLIGHT: Sudan conflicts
ASIA AND PACIFIC
Pakistan in mourning as parents bury children after school attack
Taliban go on killing spree at Pakistan school, 132 students dead
Pakistani pupils recall narrow escapes, carnage in Taliban slaughter
Thailand fails to clean lead-poisoned creek despite court order - rights group
Philippines calls one-month ceasefire with Maoists for Xmas, Pope
- SPOTLIGHT: Philippines-Mindanao conflict
Indonesia rescuers use earth-movers in landslide rescue as toll rises to 32
- SPOTLIGHT: Natural disasters
Unable to pay salaries, Afghanistan asks donors for more money
- SPOTLIGHT: Afghanistan turmoil
MIDDLE EAST
FEATURE-Female fighters battle for freedom and equality in Syria
European Union backs UN plan for Syrian truce
Washington undecided on U.N. resolution for Palestinian state
- SPOTLIGHT: Israeli-Palestinian conflict
LATIN AMERICA
Nine FARC members killed by army raid in Colombian jungle
- SPOTLIGHT: 50 years of Colombia's rebel fighters FARC
Tolerance of child sex crimes in Latin America thwarts convictions - rights group
EUROPE
Three arrested in northern England, suspected of enslaving Slovakians
GLOBAL
FEATURE: Drug-resistant malaria: The world's next big health crisis?
Developing nations losing record $1 trillion a year in dirty money-report
One in 500 people living with no nationality - report
- SPOTLIGHT: Can we end statelessness in a decade?
Unchecked superbugs could kill 10 million people a year
End poverty? Sometimes it really may take a village
CLIMATE
Paris climate summit faces tougher job after modest Lima deal
Lima marchers, experts want climate deal to respect rights
U.S.'s Kerry tells rich and poor to make climate deal to avoid 'tragedy'
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SPOTLIGHT: Lima climate talks
Indonesia lax when illegal loggers clear forests for palm plantations - report
Cyclone with a catch: Indian fishermen enjoy bountiful haul
- SPOTLIGHT: Fisheries and climate change
Vulnerable nations urged to craft climate migration policy
- SPOTLIGHT: Migration and climate change
Peru's melting glaciers a deadly threat as temperatures rise
Protecting mangroves can lower disaster risks, offer cash - experts
Migration stripping Pacific Islands of climate change know-how
BUILDING PEACE
Hiroshima survivor shifts search for victims from U.S. to Europe
Sworn enemies make peace in Colombia after putting down their guns
INTERVIEW-"We must negotiate with Islamic State" - senior mediator
- SPOTLIGHT: Conflict resolution
INTERVIEW-How do you successfully end wars? Academics seek an answer
- SPOTLIGHT: War and conflict
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