Kuwait's Public Works Minister Ali al-Omair Monday signed a $4.4-billion (3.9-billion-euro) contract with Turkish firm Limak Construction for a new airport terminal that will more than triple passenger capacity.

The new terminal, due to be completed in six years, will raise capacity at Kuwait's only airport to 25 million passengers annually from around seven million now, the minister said.

Air France pilots voted overwhelmingly Monday for what could be extended strike action in June, their union said, casting another shadow over France's hosting of Euro 2016.

The SNPL, the main pilots' union, told AFP its members had voted by 68 percent for a strike of more than six days in protest at cuts to their wages.

Already suffering from the impact of last year's jihadist attacks, tourism in Paris faces a fresh challenge from the recent wave of violent strikes and protests, tourism bosses warned on Monday.

Hotel bookings by Japanese visitors were down 56 percent in the first quarter of the year compared to the same period in 2015, while Russians were down by 35 percent, the city's tourist board said.

The U.S.-led consortium leading the development of Israel's offshore gas reserves has announced its first sales deal since a reworked agreement on a key offshore field was given the go-ahead.

The consortium, led by U.S. firm Noble Energy, Sunday announced a $3-billion deal to supply 13 billion cubic metres of natural gas from the Leviathan field to a power plant in southern Israel over the next 18 years.

France is bracing for a week of severe disruption to transport after unions called for more action in their bitter standoff with the Socialist government over its labor market reforms.

A bid by a group of Gulf investors to purchase a majority stake of Kuwait's top food company and a regional leader, Americana, has failed, an official statement said Sunday.

"No final agreement has been reached," said Al-Khair National for Stocks and Real Estate, which manages billions of dollars of stocks held by the Kharafi family, Kuwait's wealthiest merchant family, which wanted to sell its 69-percent stake in Americana.

A British exit from the European Union would plunge the two parties into a messy divorce and force them build a new relationship after a marriage of more than 40 years.

Here are the logistical and legal details of how the split would work, and the key issues that Brussels and London would have to negotiate if Britons vote for a "Brexit" in the June 23 referendum.

For Briton Damian Duffy, who has run flower shops for 20 years, a Brexit would feel like a "huge party".

This despite British Prime Minister David Cameron, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and a host of multinationals all warning of a painful economic fallout should Britain vote to exit the European Union in a referendum on June 23.

Spain may try to force the issue of joint sovereignty with Britain over Gibraltar in the event of a Brexit, the territory's chief minister said in an interview aired Saturday.

Fabian Picardo told Sky News television that Spain might close the frontier gates with the British overseas territory if Britain votes to leave the European Union in a membership referendum on June 23, choking the peninsula of workers and land access to the continent.

The number of foreigners visiting Turkey crashed by almost 30 percent in April as tourists stayed away due to security fears following a wave of attacks and tensions with Russia.

Some 1.75 million foreigners came to Turkey in April, down 28.07 percent on April 2015, the tourism ministry said in its latest release.