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BEIJING, March 26 (Xinhua) -- Commercial logging will be forbidden in key state forests in northeast China on April 1, said China's forestry watchdog Thursday.

The State Forestry Administration (SFA) said commercial logging would be banned in state forests in Inner Mongolia and Jilin to assist in the recovery of China's wood resources.

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By Monday afternoon, UKIP has won 27.5 percent of the votes and prevailed over all the other political parties by increasing its Members of European Parliament (MEPs) seats from 13 to 24, beating the traditional mainstream parties for the first time in a national election.

The Liberal Democrats, which formed a coalition government with Prime Minister David Cameron's Conservative Party in 2010, has seen its vote share halved to a mere 6.9 percent and lost all but one of its 11 seats announced so far in the European legislature.

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