Restrictions on the US House speaker and family members come in response to her visit to Taiwan Beijing has decided to sanction Nancy Pelosi and her immediate family over her trip to Taiwan this week, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson announced on Friday.

Pyongyang is also seeking to ramp up fissile material production, a UN report seen by the outlet says North Korea laid the groundwork for a nuclear test in the first half of this year, Reuters reported on Friday, citing a confidential report submitted to a UN watchdog committee.

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