BANGKOK -- Thailand's Constitutional Court suspended Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra on Tuesday after accepting a petition seeking her removal from office over a leaked phone call on border issues with Cambodia.

A panel of judges unanimously voted to accept the petition and ordered Paetongtarn to stop performing her duties as prime minister starting Tuesday pending a final ruling, the court said in a statement. (Thailand-PM-Suspension)

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NEW DELHI -- At least 35 people were killed and over 30 others injured in a massive explosion inside a chemical factory in the southern Indian state of Telangana, officials said Tuesday.

The death toll swelled due to the recovery of more bodies from the debris during the overnight rescue operation.

The blast took place on Monday in the Pashamylaram industrial area of Patancheru, Sangareddy district, about 48 km northwest of Hyderabad, the capital city of Telangana. (India-Factory-Blast)

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GAZA -- At least 45 Palestinians were killed by Israeli shelling and gunfire in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, Gaza's Civil Defense said, while the Israeli army announced that it had attacked 140 targets in the coastal enclave over the past 24 hours.

The attacks come as Palestinian security sources reported that Israeli artillery shelling has continued since the early morning hours of Tuesday on the eastern areas of Gaza City and Jabalia, north of the Strip. (Gaza Strip-Hamas-Israel)

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WASHINGTON -- U.S. billionaire Elon Musk renewed his criticism of President Donald Trump's "big, beautiful bill" on Monday, threatening that the lawmakers who support it risk losing their primaries next year.

"Every member of Congress who campaigned on reducing government spending and then immediately voted for the biggest debt increase in history should hang their head in shame!" he wrote on his social platform X.

"And they will lose their primary next year if it is the last thing I do on this Earth," he noted. (Trump-Musk-Bill) Enditem