Michele Kelemen
Michele Kelemen has been with NPR for two decades, starting as NPR's Moscow bureau chief and now covering the State Department and Washington's diplomatic corps. Her reports can be heard on all NPR News programs, including Morning Edition and All Things Considered.
As Diplomatic Correspondent, Kelemen has traveled with Secretaries of State from Colin Powell to Antony Blinken and everyone in between. She was part of the NPR team that won the 2007 Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia University Award for coverage of the war in Iraq.
As NPR's Moscow bureau chief, Kelemen chronicled the end of the Yeltsin era and Vladimir Putin's consolidation of power. She recounted the terrible toll of the latest war in Chechnya, while also reporting on a lighter side of Russia, with stories about modern day Russian literature and sports.
Kelemen came to NPR in September 1998, after eight years working for the Voice of America. There, she learned the ropes as a news writer, newscaster and show host.
Michele earned her Bachelor's degree from the University of Pennsylvania and a Master's degree from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies in Russian and East European Affairs and International Economics.
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Leaked documents on the Mideast peace process will complicate U.S. efforts to revive talks. They show the Bush administration failed to capitalize when Palestinians made major compromises to Israel, while the Obama administration is seen to be reluctant to put its ideas on the table.
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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton calls it a national security issue. Diplomats and foreign policy analysts warn that America's burgeoning debt and deficits have begun to erode its influence in the world.
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Some analysts say diplomatic cables published by WikiLeaks give the impression that tough sanctions matter more to the U.S. than striking a deal with Tehran over its nuclear program. But the White House says its engagement strategy is not a ploy and that it will take a serious approach going into talks next week.
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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has been consulting her predecessors and past U.S. Middle East negotiators as she prepares to host Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday. -
The U.N. Security Council is grappling with a troubling question in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: How could U.N. peacekeepers not know about mass rapes taking place over a four-day period this summer? More than 150 women were raped by rebel fighters. The U.S. ambassador to the U.N. says communication procedures clearly didn't work.
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The U.S. president and his Russian counterpart met Thursday at the White House, and while they acknowledged some differences, they highlighted some areas of improvement -- including unqualified U.S. support for Russia's entry into the World Trade Organization.
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