Singapore carries out its fifth execution this year

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Singapore executed a 39-year-old man who was convicted of trafficking heroin, the city-state's fifth hanging this year and the third in just over a week, authorities have said. His punishment was carried out on Thursday, the Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) said in a statement. Mohamed Shalleh Adul Latiff was sentenced to death for possessing around 55 grams of heroin "for the purpose