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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Honduras' deposed President Manuel Zelaya plans to return home to contest his ouster, with the support of the Organization of American States, the United Nations and the United States. Washington, however, has found itself among strange bedfellows on this issue.
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President Obama will try to reach out to the Muslim world this week through a speech in Cairo. Administration officials are highlighting Egypt's position as a strategic ally of the United States, but one analyst says the choice of location was more a process of elimination. -
Afghan and Pakistani officials are meeting again in Washington — as the Obama Administration tries to get both countries cooperating more in the fight against extremism. It was a crucial day of meetings Wednesday with the leaders of the United States, Pakistan and Afghanistan.
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President Obama plays host Wednesday to the leaders of two countries that have been a central focus of his administration's foreign policy: Afghanistan and Pakistan. The idea of the trilateral meetings is to come up with some concrete guidelines to cooperate in the fight against extremists, says U.S. envoy Richard Holbrooke.
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President Obama says he wants Israelis and Palestinians to revive stalled peace talks. He is inviting Israeli, Palestinian and Egyptian leaders to the White House for separate talks. Jordan's King Abdullah, who met Obama at the White House on Tuesday, said he's convinced the U.S. is preparing for a regional approach to peace.
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King Abdullah of Jordan will be the first Arab leader to meet President Obama in the Oval Office, when they hold talks today at the White House. The Jordanian monarch comes with a message — that the U.S. needs to work quickly to try to revive Israeli-Palestinian talks. But the prospects look pretty bleak.
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