00:00 - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has promised to annex the West Bank, if he gets re-elected in the country's national polls. We speak to James Dorsey, Senior Fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies and its Middle East Institute, for more insights.

07:17 - With 900 million people in India set to go to the polls this month, Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ruling BJP has just released its election manifesto- promising, among other things, to spend 1.4 trillion dollars on infrastructure.

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