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ISLAMABAD, April 28 (Reuters) - Pakistan's defence minister said on Monday that a military incursion by neighbouring India was imminent in the aftermath of a deadly militant attack on tourists in Kashmir last week, as tensions rise between the two nuclear-armed nations. The militant attack killed 26 people and triggered outrage in Hindu-majority India, along with calls for action against Muslim-majority Pakistan. India accuses Pakistan of backing militancy in Kashmir, a region both claim and have fought two wars over. "We have reinforced our forces because it is something which is imminent now. So in that situation some strategic decisions...

Hundreds of foreigners will be recruited to Australia's navy, army and air force as the federal government looks to Five Eyes allies to fill a shortage. The recruitment drive came as our newest military assets arrived, also from overseas. A trio of supersonic stealth fighters from the US have touched down at Williamtown RAAF Base to complete a fleet of 72 new F-35As. "The platform brings lethality, it brings survivability, and it brings a technology that increases Australia's air combat capability by a huge amount," Air Commodore Peter Robinson, Air Combat Group Commander, said. Now, overseas defence imports will extend...