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Jun Wei Yeo, also known as Dickson Yeo, entered a plea of guilty today to one count of acting within the United States as an illegal agent of a foreign power without first notifying the Attorney General, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 951.  Yeo’s plea was entered via videoconference before the Honorable Tanya S. Chutkan in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The announcement was made by John G. Demers, Assistant Attorney General; Michael R. Sherwin, Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia; Timothy R. Slater, Assistant Director in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s...

Two Singaporean members of regional terrorist group Jemaah Islamiah (JI) were arrested in October and are being detained under the Internal Security Act, Singapore Home Affairs Minister Wong Kan Seng said. Mr Wong said the pair, aged 20 and 21, were part of the same Pakistani-based cell which was broken up in September with the arrests of 19 Indonesians and Malaysians. He said they were being groomed in Pakistan to be part of the next generation of JI leaders and were arrested after they returned to Singapore. "We got their names, we know who they are and when they came...