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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The State Department has developed a quick training program for people sent to Iraq as part of a Provincial Reconstruction Team. In two weeks, they are briefed on everything from Arabic to driving in a war zone. Is any of it taught effectively, given the short time-frame?
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After spending four months in Tehran's Evin Prison, a Woodrow Wilson Center scholar was back at work Monday. Haleh Esfandiari, who runs the Middle East program at the Washington-based center, met with reporters to talk about her time in captivity. -
China's envoy on Darfur is in Washington, responding to critics who accuse the fast-rising Asian power of turning a blind eye to bloodshed in the Sudanese region out of economic self-interest. In particular, China has been bloodied by a Hollywood campaign to re-label the 2008 Olympics as the "Genocide Games." China says the Western critics are hypocrites who have exploited oil resources globally but now condemn Beijing for its oil exploration.
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Experts in the United States know little about Iran's motives for arresting Iranian-American scholars and journalists in the first place, but they suggest that Iran's supreme leader stepped in to ease tensions with the United States.
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Amnesty International says Sudan's government continues to send weapons to Darfur in violation of a peace treaty and a U.N. arms embargo. The human rights group urged the United Nations to give its planned peacekeeping force for the region the authority to confiscate weapons from combatants.
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A week after the U.N. Security Council authorized a huge peacekeeping force for Darfur, U.N. planners say they are on track to deploy a primarily African force, as Sudan has demanded. But a top State Department official says the Sudanese are going to have to accept anyone who volunteers to protect the millions of displace civilians.
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