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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More than two years after a truck bomb killed former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri, the U.N. Security Council has set up a court to prosecute the case. The Council was divided on the issue: Ten members voted in favor of establishing the court, and five abstained. In Beirut, opposition groups allied with Damascus are firmly against the tribunals.
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President Bush tightened U.S. sanctions against Sudan on Tuesday, saying Darfurians deserve the help. It has been three years since his administration first called the conflict genocide. The action bars 31 more companies from accessing the U.S. financial system and targets three individuals.
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President Bush tightened U.S. sanctions against Sudan on Tuesday, saying that Sudan's president is obstructing the peace effort and that Darfur deserves help.
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Christopher Dell seems to like challenging jobs. He's heading to Kabul later this summer, after three years as U.S. Ambassador to Zimbabwe. There, he earned a reputation for speaking out against President Robert Mugabe's regime.
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When the Bush administration launched Al Hurra TV, the idea was to promote America in the Muslim world. But some lawmakers who funded it are calling for the resignation of the station's news director. They say Larry Register, who doesn't speak Arabic, has given voice to terrorists.
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Some senators want to know why the United States calls Sudan a "strong partner in the war on terror," while at the same time accusing Khartoum of carrying out a genocide in Darfur.
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