Major events that left their mark on 2018 (9)

ANKARA (AA) – Here are the main developments of the year day by day, and month by month:</p> <p>-SEPTEMBER-</p> <p><br>

Sept. 1

– A total of 391 civilians, including 66 children, are killed in civil war-torn Syria in August 2018, according to the Syrian Network for Human Rights.

– Turkey's women's classic archery team wins the European championship in the Polish city of Legnica.

Sept. 2

– A new photo of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak looking frail and aged goes viral on social media.

– A total of 406 people die and 871 others sustain serious injuries in the last five months from falling off crowded trains in India.

Sept. 3

– Brazilian football legend Ronaldo becomes the primary owner of Spain's Real Valladolid after purchasing 51 percent of the Spanish club's shares for €30 million.

Sept. 4

– A large-scale Syrian regime offensive in the opposition stronghold of Idlib could lead to the “worst humanitarian catastrophe in the 21st century”, warns UN’s humanitarian chief Mark Lowcock.

– Italian club Juventus' new striker Cristiano Ronaldo with his €31 million annual salary, earns three times higher than the second highest-paid player (€9.5 million of Gonzalo Higuain, AC Milan) in Italy's top-tier football league, Serie A.

Sept. 6

– Turkey's first indigenous helicopter T625 makes its maiden flight in the capital Ankara.

– Hollywood icon Burt Reynolds dies at 82 after suffering cardiac arrest.

– Dolores O'Riordan, the lead singer of famous Irish rock band The Cranberries, drowned in her hotel room’s bath as a result of excessive alcohol intake, a judicial inquiry reveals.

– Israel has banned Palestinian resistance icon Ahed al-Tamimi and her family from traveling abroad.

Sept. 7

– Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan calls for an end to deaths in Syria at the trilateral summit in the Iranian capital Tehran.

Sept. 8

– The U.S. cuts funding for hospitals that mainly serve Palestinians in the occupied East Jerusalem, Israeli daily Haaretz reports.

Sept. 9

– Japanese Princess Akiko of Mikasa arrived in Turkey for a visit.

– Serbian tennis player Novak Djokovic defeated Argentina’s Juan Martin del Potro in the US Open final to claim his 14th Grand Slam title in New York.

Sept. 10

– The U.S. shutters Washington diplomatic mission of Palestine Liberation Organization, as the Donald Trump administration prepares to roll out its Middle East peace plan.

– The Turkish economy grows by 5.2 percent in the second quarter of 2018 compared with the same period last year, according to TurkStat, statistics office of Turkey.

Sept. 11

– Russia’s military exercises “Vostok-2018 ” — the largest-ever in the country's history — start.

– A suicide blast rips through a crowd of protesters in eastern Afghanistan, killing at least 32 people and leaving over 100 others wounded.

Sept. 12

– Russian President Vladimir Putin offers an olive branch to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, with a proposal for a peace treaty without any preconditions by the year-end.

– Transfer spending in football reaches new highs globally as summer spending by clubs of the Big 5 — England, France, Germany, Italy, and Spain — surpasses $4 billion, reveals a FIFA report.

Sept. 14

– Hurricane Florence hits US' North Carolina rapping the coastline with maximum winds of 90 miles (150 kilometers) per hour and torrential downpours as it pushes a storm surge far inland.

– Former Donald Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort pleads guilty to two criminal counts in the latest legal victory for Special Counsel Robert Mueller.

Sept. 15

– Iraq's parliament elects Sunni politician Mohammed Al Halbusi as assembly speaker after winning majority votes.

Sept. 16

– Estonian pilot Ott Tanak wins the 10th round of World Rally Championship in Turkey’s touristic Marmaris district of southwestern Mugla province.

Sept. 17

– Turkey and Russia agree to turn Syria's northwestern Idlib province into a demilitarized zone.

– At least four people die and over 200 others are wounded as Typhoon Mangkhut hits southern China and Hong Kong.

– Movie theaters in Saudi Arabia this week will screen an Egyptian film for the first time following the reversal of a 35-year ban on public cinemas.

– Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is shifted back to jail together with his daughter and son-in-law, ending the parole he was granted to attend his wife’s funeral.

– The Trump administration says that it will cut the maximum number of refugees that can be resettled in the U.S. by one-third.

– Amazon's The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel walks away the big winner from the 70th Emmy Awards.

Sept. 18

– Turkish-American surgeon and talk show host Dr. Mehmet Oz says he was greatly moved by his visits in July to refugee camps in Turkey and Syria, noting it is something he will never forget.

– A Russian IL-20 aircraft is accidentally downed by Syrian regime forces, the Defense Ministry says and blames Israel, saying Syrian air defenses accidentally hit the plane while trying to repel an Israeli attack.

Sept. 19

– The death toll from Philippines typhoon named “Mangkhut” rises to 81.

Sept. 20

– The U.S. blacklists 33 Russian officials and entities associated with Moscow's defense and intelligence industries.

– Japanese PM Abe is reelected as head of his ruling Liberal Democratic Party, paving the way for him to become the country's longest-serving premier.

Sept. 21

– Saudi television anchorwoman Weam al-Dekheil becomes the first female news presenter on a state-owned Saudi television channel.

– The discovery of fat molecules in a fossil 558 million years old confirms it as the oldest-known animal on record, a group of researchers announces.

Sept. 23

– The death toll after the capsize of a passenger ferry in Tanzania’s Lake Victoria rises to 224.

Sept. 26

– The Pentagon said it will remove four missile systems from Kuwait, Jordan, and Bahrain.

Sept. 28

– Powerful 7.5-magnitude earthquake hits Indonesia, leaving more than 1,400 people dead.

– A U.S. F-35 fighter jet crashes in South Carolina, marking the first crash for one of the country's most expensive military jets.

Sept. 29

– Russia has begun delivering the S-300 air defense system to Syria, says Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.

Sept. 30

– Mercedes team's British driver Lewis Hamilton wins the Russian Grand Prix, which is the 16th race of the 2018 FIA Formula One World Championship.

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