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 Bush administration is considering joining Mexico's battle against narco-traffickers with a multibillion-dollar anti-drug plan that could provide telephone tapping equipment, military helicopters, radar to track drug shipments, and training.
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The Bush administration has been looking for more allies on Iraq. Increasingly, that means turning to the United Nations. The U.S., along with Britain, has drafted a Security Council resolution to expand the U.N. mission in Iraq. That resolution goes to a vote on Thursday.
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President Bush said Monday that, with the right intelligence, the U.S. and Pakistani governments could take out al-Qaida leaders in Pakistan. Bush is at Camp David, where he is meeting with Afghan president Hamid Karzai.
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Kosovo will be independent, but not quite yet – that's the message the Bush administration gave a group of Kosovo politicians Monday in Washington, D.C. Now another period of diplomacy begins in a final attempt at an international agreement on Kosovo's future.
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Israel released some Palestinian prisoners in an effort to boost Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' new government in the West Bank. But Israel has kept Gaza sealed off since Hamas took over, and U.N. officials warn that a humanitarian crisis is in the making.
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Sunni insurgents in Iraq are getting their messages out to the wider Arab world by issuing daily press releases and video clips through the Internet, according to a report by the U.S.-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. According to the report, "an alternative, no matter how lavishly funded and cleverly produced, will not eliminate this demand."
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