Paetongtarn Shinawatra dismissed as Thailand PM over phone call to rival leader

Paetongtarn Shinawatra, left, arrives at Government House in Bangkok on Friday (Sakchai Lalit/AP)

Thailand’s constitutional court on Friday dismissed Paetongtarn Shinawatra from her position as prime minister, ruling that as the country’s leader she violated constitutional rules on ethics in a phone call with Cambodia’s senate president, Hun Sen.

The ruling means she immediately loses her job, which she had held for about a year.