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This article covers breaking news and events in September 2018.

Daily events

Saturday 1st September 2018

• Brussels / European Union : The production ban on low-voltage halogen lamps and high-voltage halogen lamps without reflectors comes into force.
• Geneva / Switzerland : The new United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights takes office. The designated successor to the Jordanian Seid al-Hussein is Chile’s former President Michelle Bachelet .
• Hildesheim / Germany : Consecration of Heiner Wilmer SCJ as the 71st Bishop of Hildesheim in Hildesheim Cathedral
• Nouakchott / Mauritania : parliamentary, regional and local elections
• Paris / France : The Biodiversity Act comes into force in France and contains a ban on five neonicotinoids , including the active ingredients clothianidin , imidacloprid from Bayer CropScience and thiamethoxam from Syngenta (to ChemChina ), which are contained in many plant protection products and will also be used from December 19, 2018 in the European Union (EU) are banned outdoors, as well as the active ingredients Acetamiprid from Sanofi and Thiacloprid from Bayer in addition to the EU requirements . They are blamed for the bee deaths.
• Vohburg an der Donau / Germany : In the Bayernoil oil refinery in the district of Irsching, around 5:05 a.m. there is an explosion in the liquid gas and liquid petrol system of the gas power plant and a subsequent large fire. 10 people are injured. There was a disaster alert. 1,800 residents of nearby houses were evacuated as a precaution, but were able to return to their apartments on the same day.
• Winningen / Germany : Opponents of nuclear power stop a suspected uranium ore transport from Hamburg to France for a few hours on the regional railway line ( Moselle line ) by lowering themselves from the Moselle valley bridge on federal motorway 61 .

Sunday 2nd September 2018

• Cairo / Egypt : President Abd al-Fattah as-Sisi has ratified a law regulating social networks . In the future, social media accounts on the Internet with more than 5000 followers, for example on Facebook and Twitter, will be monitored by the Supreme Council for Media Regulation (SCMR).
• Damasak / Nigeria : Alleged fighters of the Islamist militia Islamic State in West Africa (ISWA) attack a military base in the town of Zari near the border with Niger . According to the military spokesman for the 2nd Nigerian Division, which is deployed against the Islamists as part of Operation Lafiya Dole, the attacks were successfully repulsed. The AFP news agency reports that 30 armed forces soldiers have been killed .
• Mezzeh / Syria : There are several explosions early in the morning at the Syrian air force base Mezzeh southwest of Damascus . The Syrian news agency SANA reports on a short circuit in an ammunition depot on the base as the trigger for the detonations. At least two military personnel are killed and 11 other people are injured. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), based in Great Britain, does not rule out another missile attack by the Israeli armed forces .
• Mogadishu / Somalia : At least five people are killed in a car bomb attack on a restaurant in the capital. Another car bomb attack on a police station in the suburb of Afoye kills five police officers and seven civilians. The security forces kill two of the attackers. The Islamist Al-Shabaab militia is committed to the attacks.
• Tripoli / Libya : During the last week of heavy fighting between rival militias in the capital, around 400 prisoners fled the Ain-Sara prison. The prisoners are criminals and supporters of the former revolutionary leader Muammar al-Gaddafi . On August 31, the Ministry of Health reported at least 39 deaths. The Tripoli International Airport was also closed due to rocket attacks. In the evening the capital was under rocket fire. The Waddan Hotel near the Italian embassy and a diesel depot of the state oil company National Oil Corporation were also hit . There are also fights between the 7th Infantry Brigade and the Tripoli Revolutionary Brigades (TRB) and the Al-Nawasi Brigade in the city of Tarhuna, 65 kilometers southeast of the capital.

Monday 3rd September 2018

• Berlin / Germany : Lake Chad Conference
• Frankfurt / Germany : Awarding of the Frank Schirrmacher Prize to Daniel Kehlmann
• Johannesburg / South Africa : For the first time after the end of apartheid in 1994 in South Africa, over 6,000 white workers from the Solidariteit union went on a slow strike because of racial discrimination at the oil and chemical company Sasol . Like their black colleagues, they are demanding participation in the bonus program for purchasing shares worth the equivalent of 29,000 euros.
• Kigali / Rwanda : general election
• Beijing / People's Republic of China : 3rd Summit and 7th Ministerial Conference of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC). At the China-Africa summit in front of around 53 African heads of state and government, President Xi Jinping stated that the People's Republic of China would invest around 51.7 billion euros in infrastructure and lending as part of the expansion of the Belt and Road by 2021 -Initiative plans.
• Rangoon / Myanmar : Journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo are sentenced to seven years in prison for "betraying state secrets". You had researched for the Reuters news agency about the killing of ten Rohingya by the Myanmar army on September 2, 2017 as part of a so-called anti-terrorist campaign.
• Rio de Janeiro / Brazil : On the night of September 3rd, the National Museum of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro is destroyed by a major fire; According to initial findings, a large part of the approximately 20 million exhibits are likely to have been lost or badly damaged, including the largest Egyptian collection in Latin America.
• Somerset West / South Africa : At least eight people are killed and at least two injured in an explosion in an ammunition factory of the German-South African joint venture Rheinmetall Denel Munition (RDM).

Tuesday 4th September 2018

• Amsterdam / Netherlands : The Dutch all-finance service provider ING Groep pays a fine of around 775 million euros to settle an extensive money laundering case . A week later, ING Bank announced that it was terminating its contract with CFO Koos Timmermans.
• Bonn / Germany : The Federal Cartel Office imposed a fine totaling 16 million euros on the DuMont media group , a responsible person and a lawyer. DuMont was accused of having made a prohibited territory agreement with the Bonner General-Anzeiger group .

Wednesday 5th September 2018

• Elsdorf / Germany : In the conflict over the Hambach Forest , the energy company RWE, under the protection of the North Rhine-Westphalian police, began to remove obstacles and blockades from environmental activists from the forest.
• Kabul / Afghanistan : In a suicide attack in the wrestling club Maiwand and a car bomb attack nearby, at least 20 people are killed and another 70 injured in the Shiite district of Dasht-e-Barchi.
• London / United Kingdom : Six months after the nerve agent attack on Sergei Skripal and his daughter Julija in Salisbury , the British Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has named the two alleged agents of the Russian military intelligence service GRU , Alexander Petrow and Ruslan Boshirov, as suspects.
• Wiesbaden / Germany : In a judgment that is not yet legally binding, the Wiesbaden administrative court has justified the action brought by Deutsche Umwelthilfe (DUH) against the state of Hesse for exceeding nitrogen oxide limits. The clean air plan submitted by Hessen must then contain a driving ban for diesel vehicles of the Euro 4 emissions standard and older and for gasoline vehicles of the Euro 1 and Euro 2 standard from February 2019 in the city of Frankfurt am Main when it comes into force .

Thursday 6th September 2018

• Atsuma / Japan : In an earthquake with a magnitude of 6.6 M _w on the island of Hokkaidō, at least 39 people are killed, the electricity fails across the island and the Tomatō-Atsuma power station is badly damaged. The New Chitose Airport is blocked.
• Berlin / Germany : The media in Germany report on a statement by the Federal Interior Minister Horst Seehofer ( CSU ) in the wake of a homicide in Chemnitz : “The migration issue is the mother of all political problems.” He informs the Rheinische Post that he is “as a citizen also took to the streets ”-“ of course not together with radicals ”. The killing was followed by xenophobic demonstrations . Chancellor Angela Merkel ( CDU ) says of Seehofer's statements that there are "problems" and "successes" in the refugee crisis .
• New Delhi / India : The Supreme Court in India still has the prohibition of "carnal intercourse against the order of nature" contained in Section 377 of the Criminal Code and reinforced with a prison sentence of up to ten years for acts involving children or animals, but no longer reserved for heterosexual or homosexual oral and anal intercourse.
• Nyon / Switzerland : The men's UEFA Nations League, which is being staged for the first time, begins with the opening games in the four leagues. The tournament takes place in several cities of the 55 participating countries, whose national football associations belong to the European football association UEFA . The tournament ends in June 2019.
• Innsbruck / Austria : The biennial climbing world championship in the disciplines lead climbing , bouldering , paraclimbing and speed was opened in Innsbruck.

Friday 7th September 2018

• Hamburg / Germany : The Swede Svante Pääbo was awarded the Körber Prize for deciphering the genome of the Neanderthals .
• Tehran / Iran : Presidents Vladimir Putin from Russia, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan from Turkey and Hassan Rohani from Iran are taking part in a three-way summit on peace settlement for the civil war country Syria . Representatives from Germany and France were also invited. Meanwhile, the Syrian armed forces are planning an offensive in Idlib Governorate against Islamist rebels and the like. a. the Haiʾat Tahrir asch-Scham (Committee for the Liberation of the Levant).
• Wiesbaden / Germany : As part of NATO's commitment to support European security and as a result of the National Defense Licensing Act of 2017, the US Army Europe announces an increase in the US armed forces in Germany by 1,500 soldiers and their family members by September 2020. The new units to be stationed in Grafenwohr include the headquarters of a field artillery brigade; two MLRS battalions with multiple launchers; and additional support units. The new units stationed in Ansbach include a battalion with a short-range air defense system (SHORAD) and additional support units.

Saturday 8th September 2018

• Basra / Iraq : Insurgents storm the Iranian consulate and set it on fire. Iraqi security forces fired shots to disperse the protests. The protesters are demanding jobs, clean drinking water and a secure electricity supply. On September 6, other buildings such as the provincial government were set on fire. At least nine people died in the riot within a week and 93 others were injured, including 18 security guards.
• Como / Italy : When a theater is being demolished, workers discover a stone amphora from the fifth century AD with 300 gold coins in a wall. Opened in 1807 and closed in 1997, the Teatro Cressoni was located near the site of the former forum of the Roman city of Novum Comum.
• Koya / Iraq : The Iranian armed forces attack the headquarters of the Democratic Party Kurdistan-Iran (PDKI / KDPI) in the Kurdistan Autonomous Region in northern Iraq around 60 km east of Arbil with Katyusha rocket launchers . At least 11 people are killed and 30 injured.
• Luanda / Angola : Former President José Eduardo dos Santos is saying goodbye to the political stage after almost 40 years in power. At the party conference of the ruling Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola (MPLA), he hands over the leadership of the party to President João Lourenço, who has been in office since September 2017 .
• Qamishli / Syria : In Qamishli on the border with Turkey there is heavy fighting between the Syrian armed forces and the Kurdish People's Defense Units (YPG). According to Kurdish information, seven YPG fighters and 11 Syrian soldiers are killed. A convoy of the Syrian army was attacked on the way around Qamishli airport .
• Gudauta / Georgia : The Prime Minister of the internationally unrecognized Republic of Abkhazia in Georgia, Gennadi Gagulija , was killed on the coastal highway in a car accident with his convoy near the town of Myussera in Gudauta Rajon.

Sunday 9th September 2018

• Islamabad / Pakistan : Arif Alvi ( PTI ) takes up the post of President.
• Moscow / Russia : direct gubernatorial elections in 22 regions, including the mayor of Moscow and regional and local representative bodies. The election victory of Mayor Sergej Sobyanin ( United Russia ) is beyond question. Many members of the opposition were not even allowed to take part in the elections.
• New York City / United States : Naomi Osaka became the first Japanese female tennis player to win a Grand Slam tournament by beating Serena Williams in the final at the US Open .
• Nuuk / Greenland : The Partii Naleraq announces its resignation from the Kielsen III cabinet after just under four months , which no longer has a majority.
• Stockholm / Sweden : From the parliamentary elections in Sweden , in which the red-green minority government lost votes, the Social Democratic Labor Party emerged as the strongest force, ahead of the Moderate Collection Party and the Sweden Democrats .

Monday 10th September 2018

• Kabul / Afghanistan : At least 60 people are killed and many injured in heavy fighting between the radical Islamic Taliban and the Afghan national army and other security forces in several locations. In the northern Badghis province , the Ab Kamari district on the border with Turkmenistan was conquered by the Taliban.

Tuesday September 11, 2018

• Barcelona / Spain : On Catalonia's national holiday , around one million people demonstrate again for the independence of the autonomous region from Spain.
• Callao / Peru : Abimael Guzmán , the former leader of the guerrilla organization Shining Path ( Sendero Luminoso ), a Marxist-Leninist and Maoist party, is found guilty by a tribunal along with nine other leaders and given life imprisonment. You are responsible for a car bomb attack on July 16, 1992 in Lima's middle-class district of Miraflores . 25 people died and more than 150 people were injured.
• Zugol / Russia : Under the name Vostok-2018 (Восток-2018), the largest Russian military maneuver after the end of the Cold War begins with around 300,000 soldiers, around 1,000 aircraft and helicopters and 36,000 vehicles. A large number of military bases in Siberia and in the Far East of Russia are involved . In addition, the entire Russian Northern and Pacific Fleets as well as the airborne troops are to be deployed. Soldiers from the Mongolian armed forces and around 3,200 soldiers from the Chinese People's Liberation Army will also take part in the exercises until September 15 .
• Zalambessa / Ethiopia : The Eritrean President Isayas Afewerki and the Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed , together with members of the respective armed forces, open the joint border at the Orthodox New Year celebration after border conflicts that have lasted more than 20 years.

Wednesday September 12, 2018

Thursday 13th September 2018

Friday September 14, 2018

• Berlin / Germany : The 2018 German Acting Award will be presented in the Zoo Palast . Rosalie Thomass , Paula Beer and Barry Atsma are honored as best actors in a leading role , while Peter Simonischek receives the honorary award for life's work .
• Bern / Switzerland : The Federal Council will implement changes to the compulsory military service levy in January 2019, according to which the period of compulsory compensation will be increased from the 30th to the 37th year of age. A maximum of 11 replacement taxes will then be charged for all male Swiss citizens between the ages of 19 and 37. For military and civil service conscripts who are dismissed at the end of their service obligation, although they have not fully fulfilled the overall service obligation, there is then a final replacement tax.
• Florianópolis / Brazil : The member states of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) reject a motion by Japan to lift the whaling moratorium on commercial whaling that has been in force since 1986 with 41 votes to 27. For the indigenous peoples in Alaska (USA), Siberia (Russia), Greenland and St. Vincent and the Grenadines catch quotas made 415 whales of five different types of year. However, this number is small compared to the estimated 300,000 whales that are killed every year, for example through bycatch, pollution or ship collisions. Norway and Iceland do not recognize the moratorium.

Saturday 15th September 2018

• Heimbach / Germany : With the dissolution of the Mariawald Abbey , the last remaining Trappist monastery in Germany closes .
• Thimphu / Bhutan : Parliamentary elections . Another election day is on October 18th.

Sunday September 16, 2018

Monday 17th September 2018

• Bremervörde / Germany : With two pre-series Coradia iLint vehicles from the French manufacturer Alstom , the railways and transport company Elbe-Weser (EVB) are the first company in the world to start regular operations with trains with hydrogen propulsion on the Buxtehude - Bremerhaven - Cuxhaven route. The fuel cells on board can convert hydrogen and oxygen into electrical energy.
• Bucharest / Romania : Third summit of the Three Seas Initiative , in which twelve Central and Eastern European EU countries take part. An international economic forum will also take place on the sidelines, in which representatives from the states of the Western Balkans and the EU-Eastern Partnership (Moldova, Georgia, Ukraine) will also take part. Representatives from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), the World Bank and the European Investment Bank (EIB) also take part.
• Latakia / Syria : The Syrian forces shoot with the air defense system S-200 an allied Russian ELINT - reconnaissance aircraft of type Il-20M landing at the military airfield Hmeimim in about 5,000 meters from. All 15 inmates are killed. According to Russian sources, Israeli F-16 fighter jets holed up behind the Russian reconnaissance aircraft after these attacks flew near Latakia. “Israel has not informed the command of the Russian troops in Syria of the planned military operation in Latakia. A notification was received over the hot wire less than a minute before the attack. The Russian plane could not be brought to a safe zone in time, ”said Major General Igor Konashenkov .
• Swinoujscie / Poland : Signing of the contract for the planned Swinetunnel (1760 meters long) between the islands of Usedom and Wolin . Completion is planned for 2022. A consortium of the Austrian construction group Porr together with the Turkish Gülermak and the Polish Energopol-Szczecin were awarded the contract with an order volume of around 150 million euros.
• Washington, DC / United States : The US administration under Donald Trump imposes further tariffs on the Chinese government amounting to 200 billion dollars on Chinese imports.

Tuesday September 18, 2018

• Abuja / Nigeria : The Nigerian government has declared a state of emergency for the four states of Kogi , Niger , Anambra and Delta due to numerous floods. At least 100 people were killed by the floods in the Niger , Benue and Niger Delta rivers .
• Alicante / Spain : The 37th European Table Tennis Championship begins. There are competitions in singles, doubles and mixed.
• Bad Waldsee / Germany : The US motorhome manufacturer Thor Industries , based in Elkhart , Indiana, is taking over the German Erwin Hymer Group , one of the largest manufacturers of motorhomes and caravans in Europe , for a purchase price of 2.1 billion euros. Originally, Hymer only wanted to find an investor to enter the US market, but then decided to have Thor take over completely. Hymer previously founded a joint venture called Luoyang Erwin Hymer-Loncen Caravan with the Chinese company Zhejiang Lingyu Vehicle Industry. Overall, the takeover by Thor Industries creates the world's largest manufacturer of camping vehicles.
• Berlin / Germany : After his controversial remarks on the riots in Chemnitz , the President of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), Hans-Georg Maaßen , will be promoted to State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of the Interior, Building and Home Affairs in the next few weeks . The coalition partner SPD considered Maaßen as president of the BfV no longer acceptable.
• Brussels / Belgium : The European Commission has initiated an in-depth investigation to check whether the German automobile manufacturers BMW , Daimler and the VW Group (main brands: Volkswagen, Audi and Porsche) have entered into agreements in violation of EU antitrust regulations Not to be under competitive pressure in the development and introduction of emission reduction systems for gasoline and diesel passenger cars such as SCR and particle filters for gasoline engines.
• Pyongyang / North Korea : The Supreme Leader of North Korea, Kim Jong-un , and the President of South Korea , Moon Jae-in , are meeting in Pyongyang for the fifth inter-Korean summit . This lasted until September 20th.

Wednesday September 19, 2018

Thursday 20th September 2018

• Ukara / Tanzania : The ferry Nyerere capsizes on Lake Victoria . More than 228 dead were recovered.

Friday 21st September 2018

• Mbabane / Swaziland : Second round of elections in Swaziland 2018
• Berlin : Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier opens the exhibition Moving Times. Archeology in Germany . In the Martin-Gropius-Bau it shows the most important archaeological finds of the last 20 years in Germany, which range from the Stone Age to the 20th century.
• Hanoi / Vietnam : Đặng Thị Ngọc Thịnh is sworn in as the first woman in Vietnam to be President of Vietnam.

Saturday 22nd September 2018

• Ahvaz / Iran : At least 24 people die in a terrorist attack during a military parade of the Revolutionary Guard on the occasion of the 38th anniversary of the beginning of the First Gulf War (Iraq-Iran War). According to the state news agency IRNA , the member of the Sunni separatist group "Al-Ahwasieh" assumed responsibility for the attack.
• Chōfu / Japan : The Japanese space agency JAXA announces as part of the Hayabusa 2 mission the successful landing of the two MINERVA II landing robots on the surface of the asteroid (162173) Ryugu . The two robots are used to prepare the landing of MASCOT , a Franco-German asteroid lander for photographic recordings and temperature measurements.

Sunday 23rd September 2018

• Alicante / Spain : End of the table tennis championships
• Bern / Switzerland : The referendum on the Federal People's Initiative “For healthy, environmentally friendly and fairly produced food (Fair Food Initiative)” ( list of federal referendums ) fails.
• Malé / Maldives : Opposition politician Ibrahim Mohamed Solih wins the presidential election in Maldives .
• Mill Spring / USA : End of the World Equestrian Games

Monday September 24, 2018

• Beijing / People's Republic of China : US goods import duties of $ 60 billion are levied in the People's Republic of China.

Tuesday September 25, 2018

• Berlin / Germany : The CDU politician Ralph Brinkhaus surprisingly wins the election as chairman of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group in the German Bundestag with 125 to 112 votes against incumbent Volker Kauder .
• Münster / Germany : The 52nd German Historians' Day begins.

Wednesday September 26, 2018

Thursday September 27, 2018

• Berlin / Germany : At the invitation of Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier , Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan arrives for a two-day state visit and also meets with Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU).
• Hamburg / Germany : The Hamburg AFD -Fraktionschef Jörn Kruse is the delivery of the Group's Presidency and his party outlet known.
• New Delhi / India : The Supreme Court of India repeals a law that has existed since 1860 from the colonial days of British India with the criminal law section 497, which provided for the legal prosecution of men with a prison sentence of up to five years without the consent of their husband have had sexual intercourse with a married woman. Women could not sue their unfaithful husbands in the case of marriage fraud. The judges saw it as a violation of the equality of men and women guaranteed in the constitution . "The adultery law is arbitrary and an insult to the dignity of women".
• Nyon / Switzerland : On its executive session which has UEFA hosting the UEFA EURO 2024 the men of Germany awarded.

Friday 28th September 2018

• Frankfurt / Germany : Start of the three-day opening celebrations in the rebuilt part of Frankfurt's old town between the cathedral and the Römer .
• Palu / Indonesia : A 7.5 magnitude earthquake and a tsunami claim at least 1234 lives on the island of Sulawesi . The epicenter is in Donggala Governorate .
• Washington, DC / United States : US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo sees the US facilities in Iraq increasingly and continuously threatened and orders the closure of the Consulate General in Basra . He sees the Iranian Revolutionary Guards (Pasdaran) and their al-Quds unit as the originators of the latest attacks on Basra Airport near the US consulate .

Saturday 29th September 2018

• Kunming / China : At a health conference in the province of Yunnan , officials from the health authority put the number of new infections with HIV in China alone from April to June 2018 by a further 40,000 people. In total, more than 820,000 citizens are HIV positive.
• Washington, DC / United States : In the course of the investigation by the US Securities and Exchange Commission into the automaker Tesla , a settlement was agreed. Subject to judicial confirmation, Elon Musk and Tesla will each pay a fine of US $ 20 million, Elon Musk will no longer serve as chairman for three years and Tesla will hire an independent new chairman. The settlement has yet to be confirmed by a court.
• Cologne / Germany : The Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan meets on Cologne / Bonn Airport with the Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia, Armin Laschet (CDU), together and later opened with the DİTİB Chairmen Ali Erbaş the new Cologne Central Mosque in the district Ehrenfeld .
• Kleve / Germany : After a fire on September 17th in the JVA Kleve , the 26-year-old Syrian Amed A. died of his injuries in the hospital. He had been mistaken for an African from Mali and was wrongly detained.

Sunday 30th September 2018

• Chengdu / People's Republic of China : Ding Ning wins the gold medal for the third time at the Table Tennis World Cup .
• Erbil / Iraq : Parliamentary election in the Autonomous Region of Kurdistan (Iraqi Kurdistan) for around 3.8 million voters. 673 candidates from 29 political movements apply for the 111 seats in parliament. The most important parties are the Democratic Party of Kurdistan (PDK) of Nêçîrvan Barzanî and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) with Kosrat Rasul Ali .
• Skopje / Macedonia : The constitutional referendum after the agreement with Greece to change the name of the state from the internationally recognized name of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to "Republic of North Macedonia" and on joining the European Union (EU) and the NATO military alliance fails due to insufficient turnout . Only 34 percent instead of the required 50 percent of the 1.8 million eligible voters cast their votes. However, the referendum was not binding on the social democratic government of Prime Minister Zoran Zaev ( SDSM ). President Gjorge Ivanov had spoken out against the referendum and the country's name change.

See also

• Nekrolog September 2018 for deaths this month
• List of annually recurring memorial and action days in September
• Category for commemorative days, holidays or action days in September

Web links

Hurricane Helene approaches the Azores on September 12th

Commons : September 2018  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

 Wikinews: Articles Published in September 2018  - News

Individual evidence

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