2017 Gulf 12 Hours
The 2017 Gulf 12 Hours was the seventh edition of the Gulf 12 Hours held at Yas Marina Circuit on 14–16 December 2017. The race was contested with LMP3 prototypes, GT3-spec cars, GTX cars and GT4-spec cars.


2017 Gulf 12 Hours, Entry list
The official entry list consisted of 26 cars, including 7 in LMP3 prototype, 10 in GT3 and 8 in GTX.


2017 Gurez sector avalanche
The Gurez Avalanche Accident was a series of four avalanches that claimed the lives of 24 persons, including 20 soldiers and four civilians in Jammu and Kashmir on the evening of 25 January 2017.


2017 Gurez sector avalanche, Avalanche
Kashmir valley witnessed multiple heavy snowfall spells in January 2017 that triggered an avalanche, killing 24 people, including 20 Indian Army Personnel, whose camp was struck by the avalanche. An analysis of the heavy snowfall events that occurred at the majority of districts in Kashmir during January 2017  was analysed by Rafiq and Mishra  using station data from the India Meteorological Department (IMD). Results show that there were three episodes of intense snowfall over different parts of Kashmir.


2017 Gurez sector avalanche, Avalanche
Maximum daily accumulated snowfall measurements of about 11.5 and 9.2 cm were recorded at Pahalgam and Banihall stations, respectively, on 26 January 2017. Gulmarg also recorded a maximum daily accumulated snowfall of 8.8 cm on 25 January 2017. The snowfall anomaly data show that Gulmarg, Srinagar, Kupwara, Banihall, Quazigund and Pahalgam witnessed the highest snowfall of recent decades. Gulmarg and Pahalgam recorded cumulative snowfall measurements of about 38.4 and 30 cm, respectively, during January. Data from the region reveal that the accumulated snow from three episodes of intense snowfall during 6–8, 15–17 and 25–27 January 2017 resulted in an avalanche over Kashmir.


2017 Gurez sector avalanche, Avalanche
There was heavy snowfall before the accident, there had been multiple avalanches in Jammu and Kashmir. The Chandigarh based Snow and Avalanche Study Establishment warned of more avalanches in Jammu and Kashmir and Himachal Pradesh before the accident took place.


2017 Gurez sector avalanche, Avalanche
The first avalanche hit Gurez on 25 of January morning, in which a family of four civilians died. The second took place around the same time in Sonmarg, chiefly a tourist area, where an army camp was located. While seven soldiers were rescued later Indian Army Braveheart Major Amit Sagar, who had been buried in snow was martyred


2017 Gurez sector avalanche, Avalanche
In the evening, two avalanches again hit the Gurez Valley roughly 150 km from Sonmarg in quick succession. One affected an army camp located there, the other hit a group of soldiers who had been out on patrol. The bodies of 10 soldiers have been recovered from the area, the army said. It is not yet known how many soldiers are missing.


2017 Gurez sector avalanche, Avalanche
On 28 January 4 more bodies of soldiers were found taking the death toll to 15 soldiers.


2017 Guzzini Challenger
The 2017 Guzzini Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the fifteenth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2017 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Recanati, Italy between 3 and 9 July 2017.


2017 Guzzini Challenger, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2017 Guzzini Challenger – Doubles
Kevin Krawietz and Albano Olivetti were the defending champions but chose not to defend their title.


2017 Guzzini Challenger – Doubles
Jonathan Eysseric and Quentin Halys won the title after defeating Julian Ocleppo and Andrea Vavassori 6–7(3–7), 6–4, [12–10] in the final.


2017 Guzzini Challenger – Singles
Illya Marchenko was the defending champion but chose not to defend his title.


2017 Guzzini Challenger – Singles
Viktor Galović won the title after defeating Mirza Bašić 7–6(7–3), 6–4 in the final.


2017 Gwadar labourers shooting
On May 13, 2017, two militants of the Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) riding on a motorcycle opened fire on group of laborers working in Gwadar, Balochistan, Pakistan. The road where these labourers were working was one of a network of connecting roads that form part of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project. The gunfire resulted in the death of 10 labourers. A spokesman for the BLA claimed responsibility of attack.


2017 Gwadar labourers shooting, Shooting
The two gunmen fired on labourers at Pishgan and Gant, which are 20 kilometres apart from each other. Eight labourers died on the spot. Two were severely injured and later died while they were being brought to hospital, raising the death toll to ten. According to an eyewitness, both gunmen came from the Pashkun area and they spoke in Balochi. A C-130 aircraft belonging to the Pakistan Air Force was used to fly the labourers to their native areas after the funeral which was offered in Senator Marwoon Ishaq Cricket ground at around 3 pm. Law enforcement agencies rushed to the site of the attack and started a search operation.


2017 Gwadar labourers shooting, Shooting, Victims
Nine of the ten labourers were identified as: Muhammad Khan, Ali Dost, Shuban, Abdul Hakim, Rasool Bakhsh, Waheed, Zaheer and Sadam. The surviving worker was identified as Hazoor Bakhsh. All of the victims were Sindhi.


2017 Gwadar labourers shooting, Reactions
Chief Minister of Balochistan, Sanaullah Zehri condemned the attack saying, "“Such coward attacks can’t prevent development and prosperity in Gwadar and Balochistan".


2017 Gwangju Open
The 2017 Gwangju Open was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the 2nd edition of the tournament which was part of the 2017 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Gwangju, South Korea between 18 and 24 September 2017.


2017 Gwangju Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2017 Gwangju Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants
The following players received entry into the singles main draw using a protected ranking:


2017 Gwangju Open – Doubles
Sanchai and Sonchat Ratiwatana were the defending champions but chose not to defend their title.


2017 Gwangju Open – Doubles
Chen Ti and Ben McLachlan won the title after defeating Jarryd Chaplin and Luke Saville 2–6, 7–6(7–1), [10–1] in the final.


2017 Gwangju Open – Singles
Ričardas Berankis was the defending champion but chose not to defend his title.


2017 Gwangju Open – Singles
Matthias Bachinger won the title after defeating Yang Tsung-hua 6–3, 6–4 in the final.


2017 Gwynedd Council election
The 2017 Gwynedd Council election took place on 4 May 2017 to elect members of Gwynedd Council in Wales. Seventy five council seats were up for re-election. In twenty one seats, the candidates were elected unopposed.


2017 Gwynedd Council election
The Gwynedd election was on the same day as other 2017 Welsh local elections.


2017 Gwynedd Council election
The May 2017 election in the Hendre ward resulted in a "historic" tie, with the Plaid Cymru and Independent candidates each winning 132 votes. The Independent candidate was declared the winner after a name was drawn from a pot by the returning officer.


2017 Gwynedd Council election, Election results
Plaid Cymru held control of the council, with over half of the total seats, as per the table below:


2017 H1 Unlimited season
The 2017 H1 Unlimited season is the sixty-second running of the H1 Unlimited series for unlimited hydroplanes, sanctioned by the APBA.


2017 H1 Unlimited season, Teams and drivers
Note: Ṫ—The U-3 is the only piston powered boat in the fleet, powered by a dual turbocharged Allison V-12.


2017 H1 Unlimited season, Season Schedule and Results
Note: The 2017 Madison Regatta was an unofficial H1 Unlimited event. The event was won by Andrew Tate in the in the U-9 Delta/Realtrac.


2017 HDF Insurance Shoot-Out
The 2017 HDF Insurance Shoot-Out was held from September 14 to 17 at the Saville Community Sports Centre in Edmonton, Alberta. The event was held on Week 5 of the 2017–18 World Curling Tour. The total purse was CAD $32,000.


2017 HDF Insurance Shoot-Out
The event was a round robin with four pools followed by an eight-team playoff.


2017 HDF Insurance Shoot-Out, Tiebreakers
(Due to the amount of tiebreakers, games were limited to four ends, except for the Hunkin vs. Fujisawa game.)


2017 HJK season
The 2017 season is Helsingin Jalkapalloklubi's 109th competitive season. HJK are Finlands most successful football club in terms of titles, with 27 Finnish Championships, 12 Finnish Cup titles, 5 Finnish League Cup titles, one appearance in the UEFA Champions League group stages and one appearance in the UEFA Europa League group stages.


2017 HJK season
After finishing 2nd in the 2016 Veikkausliiga season, HJK entered the 2017–18 UEFA Europa League first qualifying round.


2017 HJK season, Squad, On loan
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2017 HJK season, Transfers, Winter
In:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2017 HJK season, Transfers, Winter
Out:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2017 HJK season, Transfers, Winter
Trial:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2017 HJK season, Transfers, Summer
In:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2017 HJK season, Transfers, Summer
Out:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2017 HUS Wolves football team
The 2017 HUS football team represented the Hokkaido University of Science in the 2017 JAFA Division 2 football season.


2017 Haining Open
The 2017 CBSA Haining International Snooker Open was a non-ranking snooker tournament that took place from 23 to 27 October 2017 in Haining, China.


2017 Haining Open
Matthew Selt was the defending champion, but he lost 2–4 against Yu Delu in the quarter-finals.


2017 Haining Open
Mark Selby defeated Tom Ford 5–1 in the final and made a maximum break in the third frame. Selby's maximum does not count on the official maximum break list as this was a CBSA organised tournament.


2017 Haining Open, Prize fund
The breakdown of prize money of the event is shown below:


2017 Halamish stabbing attack
The Halamish attack, or the Halamish massacre was a terrorist attack on a Jewish family in the West Bank Israeli settlement of Halamish (also known as Neve Tzuf), that took place on 21 July 2017, in which three Israelis were stabbed to death and one severely wounded. The victims of the attack were Yosef Salomon, his daughter Chaya and son Elad, the three who were murdered in the attack, and Tova Salomon, Yosef's wife, who was injured but survived.


2017 Halamish stabbing attack
The assailant, a Palestinian from nearby village, was shot by a neighbor and was arrested. It was later discovered that he identified with Hamas and had previously been arrested several times by Palestinian security forces.


2017 Halamish stabbing attack, Background
Following the 2017 Temple Mount shooting on the Friday the week before the attack, in which three Muslim Israelis attacked and killed two Druze policemen outside and inside the Temple Mount, Israeli authorities increased security measures in the area before the entrances of the Temple Mount. This included the installment of metal detectors.


2017 Halamish stabbing attack, Background
Muslim leadership refused to accept the new measures, and called on their followers to protest the new measures and to pray in front of the Temple Mount, declaring that prayers of those who pass through the metal detectors were null and void. Three Muslims were killed in and around Jerusalem after ensuing riots.


2017 Halamish stabbing attack, Attack
On July 21st, 2017, a Palestinian youth armed with a knife jumped over the security fence at Halamish and entered a house with an open door some 100 meters (330 ft) from the fence, surprising members of the Solomon family who were preparing for a Shalom Zachar celebration for the birth of a grandson. He stabbed to death the 70-year-old grandfather Yossi, his 46-year-old daughter Chaya, and 36-year-old Elad who were all pronounced dead at the scene. The 68-year-old grandmother, Tova, was stabbed and injured seriously as well before escaping upstairs. Elad's wife and three children who were downstairs escaped upstairs and barricaded themselves in a room with two infants. An Israeli soldier home on leave responded, shooting the attacker through a window.


2017 Halamish stabbing attack, Assailant
The assailant was Omar al-Abed, aged 19, from Kobar, a village near Ramallah. Two hours before the attack, Omar Al-Abed al-Jalil had called for the defense of the Al-Aqsa Mosque located on the Temple Mount on his Facebook page, writing: "Take your weapons and resist.... I only have a knife and it will answer the call of Al-Aqsa.... I know I am going and will not return." Al-Jalil carried a Quran and a bottle of water to the attack, and is believed to have ritually purified himself prior to entering the house and attacking.


2017 Halamish stabbing attack, Assailant
Al-Abed was sentenced to 4 life sentences by the military court and damages of 2,5500,000 NIS ($724,634) to the victims. In their sentence, the judges wrote that "We also discussed the maximum sentence — the death penalty. Words cannot describe the extent of the atrocity committed by the defendant" and called for al-Abed "not to be released in any future deal". In a dissenting minority opinion, judge Dov Gilboa ruled in favor of the death penalty saying al-Abed "enjoyed the whole trial with a smile". The two other judges, Zvi Heilbronn and Menachem Lieberman, voted against the death penalty.


2017 Halamish stabbing attack, Assailant
In May 2018, the Israeli Defense Ministry estimated that Al-Abed (who already received 12,200 NIS (3,370 USD)), would receive 12,604,000 NIS (3.5 million USD) in payments from the Palestinian Authority by the time he reaches 80. The estimate was prepared in conjunction with Israel legislation which would allow for permanent deductions of transfers to the Palestinian Authority due to such payments, similar to the US Taylor Force Act.


2017 Halamish stabbing attack, Aftermath
Several Israeli ministers have called for the death penalty to be called for by prosecution and applied. Military courts, where the case would be tried, can sentence death however this has not been a final judgement (following appeal) since Adolf Eichmann in 1962. The Israeli prime minister subsequently joined the calls for the death penalty.


2017 Halamish stabbing attack, Aftermath
Speaking before the United Nations Security Council on 24 July 2017, Israeli ambassador Danny Danon presented photographs of the Halamish attack and said "The terrorist who murdered this family did so knowing that the Palestinian Authority will pay him thousands of dollars a month".


2017 Halamish stabbing attack, Aftermath
In a media event prior to the security council meeting on the subsequent day, 27 July, Danon together with Oran Almog, one of the victims of the Maxim restaurant suicide bombing, described the attack as caused by incitement, and demanded that the Palestinian Authority cease what it called incentivizing terrorism by paying stipends to the families of Palestinians killed, injured or imprisoned for involvement in attacking, assisting in attacking, or planning to attack Israel, or for other types of politically-inspired violence, including riots, violent demonstrations, and throwing rocks. According to Jonathan Schanzer, Omar Al-Abed's family would receive a salary of over $3,000 per month for his more than 30-year expected prison term, as the Palestinian Authority pays jailed attackers according to a sliding scale that rewards those imprisoned the longest.


2017 Halamish stabbing attack, Aftermath
After the mother of the alleged perpetrator publicly supported the actions of her son in Palestinian media, she was arrested by Israeli forces on 25 July 2017.


2017 Halamish stabbing attack, Aftermath
On 27 July, The IDF announced its intention to demolish the home of Omar al-Abed, the attacker who carried out the stabbing attack in Halamish a week earlier.


2017 Halamish stabbing attack, Aftermath
Five family members of the perpetrator were tried for misprision of felony, due to their suspected knowledge of the perpetrator's intent and lack of reporting of said intent to Palestinian or Israeli authorities, allegedly having read the perpetrator's Facebook post a few hours prior to the attack. Convicted by the military court, his two brothers and uncle received an eight-month sentence, his father 2 months, and his mother who was also convicted for incitement one month.


2017 Halamish stabbing attack, Aftermath
The assailant's house in Kobar was demolished on the night of 16 August 2017. Palestinians clashed with IDF forces during the demolition.


2017 Halamish stabbing attack, Aftermath
On the night of 29 August 2017 a recording studio was raided and three members of a Palestinian band from Beit Rima and nearby Kafr Ein were arrested for allegedly producing a song that lauded the attack. Singing that "real men" will be found in Kobar, and that the assailant "made the Zionists lie on the ground".


2017 Halamish stabbing attack, Aftermath
Following a stabbing attack at Geva Binyamin (Adam) by a Palestinian resident of Kobar in July 2018, Israeli authorities investigated similarities between the two attacks.


2017 Halamish stabbing attack, Aftermath
The survivor of the stabbing attack, wrote a page about the soldier on leave whom she described as a "quiet and modest hero", in the Our Heroes book marking Israel's 70 years of independence.


2017 Hall of Fame Tennis Championships
The 2017 Hall of Fame Tennis Championships (also known as the Dell Technologies Hall of Fame Open for sponsorship reasons) was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor grass courts. It was the 42nd edition of the Hall of Fame Tennis Championships, and part of the ATP World Tour 250 series of the 2017 ATP World Tour. It took place at the International Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport, Rhode Island, United States, from July 17 through July 23, 2017.


2017 Hall of Fame Tennis Championships, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2017 Hall of Fame Tennis Championships, Doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:


2017 Hall of Fame Tennis Championships – Doubles
Sam Groth and Chris Guccione were the defending champions, but Guccione chose not to participate this year. Groth played alongside Leander Paes, but lost in the semifinals to Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi and Rajeev Ram.


2017 Hall of Fame Tennis Championships – Doubles
Qureshi and Ram went on to win the title, defeating Matt Reid and John-Patrick Smith in the final, 6–4, 4–6, [10–7].


2017 Hall of Fame Tennis Championships – Singles
Ivo Karlović was the defending champion, but lost in the quarterfinals to Peter Gojowczyk.


2017 Hall of Fame Tennis Championships – Singles
John Isner won his third title in Newport, defeating Matthew Ebden in the final, 6–3, 7–6(7–4).


2017 Hall of Fame Tennis Championships – Singles, Seeds
The top four seeds receive a bye into the second round.


2017 Hamburg knife attack
The 2017 Hamburg knife attack was a stabbing incident that occurred on 28 July 2017 in Hamburg, Germany.


2017 Hamburg knife attack, Attack
At 3pm on 28 July 2017, Ahmad Alhaw, a Palestinian failed asylum seeker, went to an Edeka supermarket in Fuhlsbüttler Strasse in the Barmbek area of Hamburg. He took a 20 cm-long kitchen knife from the supermarket shelf and used it to attack several people, killing a 50-year-old German man. Deutsche Welle reported 6 injured in addition to the killing. According to eyewitnesses the man shouted "Allahu Akbar" during the attack. Prosecutors said that he had hoped to die as a martyr.


2017 Hamburg knife attack, Suspect
Der Spiegel reported the suspect, who was arrested at the scene, as a refugee named Ahmad A., who allegedly had contacts with the Salafist sect, as well as having psychological and drug problems. He is a 26-year-old Palestinian born in the United Arab Emirates who arrived in Germany in 2015. Hamburg's Interior Minister Andy Grote stated that the suspect "was known as an Islamist but not a jihadist".


2017 Hamburg knife attack, Suspect
Citing security sources, Berlin newspaper Der Tagesspiegel reported that the perpetrator was a failed asylum seeker who was known to German police; he had been added to the list of 800 suspected Islamists in Hamburg prior to the attack. The news agency DPA reported that security authorities were investigating evidence the man had Salafist ties. He was awaiting deportation, but had not been deported because he did not have "identification and travel documents". While German prosecutors claim that the attacker had a "radical Islamist" motive, investigators have not found any links to jihadist groups. Alhaw also had watched ISIS propaganda videos online which radicalized him over a period of time.


2017 Hamilton Tiger-Cats season
The 2017 Hamilton Tiger-Cats season was the 60th season for the team in the Canadian Football League and their 68th overall. The Tiger-Cats finished the season in 3rd place in the East Division with a 6–12 record and missed the playoffs for the first time since 2012. After a loss to the Calgary Stampeders on October 13, 2017, followed by an Ottawa Redblacks win later that night, the Tiger-Cats were eliminated from post-season contention.


2017 Hamilton Tiger-Cats season
This was the second season under general manager Eric Tillman and fifth under head coach Kent Austin. After starting the season 0–8, Austin resigned from the head coach position on August 24, giving the post to June Jones, whom Austin had hired initially as assistant head coach three weeks prior. Jones then hired Art Briles as his assistant head coach; within hours, the CFL's league office blocked the hire over Briles' alleged involvement in the Baylor University sexual assault scandal. Jones would finish the season 6–4 and remain head coach for the 2018 season.


2017 Hamilton Tiger-Cats season, Offseason, Negotiation List
On March 31, 2017 the Tiger-Cats announced they would be the first CFL team in history to publicly announce the players on their negotiation list. Three players will be announced in each segment of Ticats All Access (a free subscription program); among the first three revealed was former Heisman-winning quarterback Johnny Manziel, who did not sign with the team in 2017 but would join the team in 2018.


2017 Hamilton Tiger-Cats season, Offseason, CFL Draft
The 2017 CFL Draft took place on May 7, 2017. The Tiger-Cats had seven selections in the eight-round draft after trading their fourth round pick and two players for Justin Capicciotti and Xavier Fulton.


2017 Hamilton Tiger-Cats season, Team, Roster
Italics indicate International player updated 2017-10-02 • 46 Active, 2 Injured, 11 Six-Game Injured,8 Practice


2017 Hammarby Fotboll season
The 2017 season was Hammarby Fotboll's 102st in existence, their 48th season in Allsvenskan and their 3rd consecutive season in the league. They competed in Allsvenskan and Svenska Cupen during the year. League play started in early April and lasted until early November. Jakob Michelsen made his first season as manager.


2017 Hammarby Fotboll season, Summary
In the off-season, on 18 November 2016, the board chose to sack manager Nanne Bergstrand, citing "a need to get a new voice and new energy into the club's sporting development". Later the same month, Jakob Michelsen was announced as the successor. He joined the club on a three-year deal from the Danish club SønderjyskE.


2017 Hammarby Fotboll season, Summary
The team had a disappointing run in the 2016-17 Svenska Cupen, getting knocked out in the group stage following a 0–1 away loss against Östersunds FK in a deciding fixture.


2017 Hammarby Fotboll season, Summary
Hammarby had a promising first half of the 2017 Allsvenskan season, claiming the 6th place in the table after 12 games. During the spring, Hammarby also won both fixtures against fierce rivals AIK (2–1) and Djurgården (3–1).


2017 Hammarby Fotboll season, Summary
In May 2017, Hammarby hired Jesper Jansson as the new director of football, ahead of a hectic summer transfer window. Hammarby sold 9 players, most notably defender Joseph Aidoo that moved to Genk in a reported club record transfer. At the same time, Hammarby brought in 8 new signings. Among these were Mads Fenger, Jeppe Andersen, Muamer Tanković, Johan Wiland and Sander Svendsen.


2017 Hammarby Fotboll season, Summary
In the second half of the campaign, Hammarby struggled to produce any sort of challenge in the league, and subsequently dropped of in the table. Both manager Jacob Michelsen and several of the new signings suffered criticism from both supporters and pundits as the club eventually finished 9th in Allsvenskan.


2017 Hammarby Fotboll season, Player statistics, Disciplinary record
Last updated: 6 November 2017Source: Only competitive matches = Number of bookings;  = Number of sending offs after a second yellow card;  = Number of sending offs by a direct red card.


2017 Hampshire County Council election
The 2017 Hampshire County Council election took place on 4 May 2017 as part of the 2017 local elections in the United Kingdom. All councillors were elected from electoral divisions by first-past-the-post voting for a four-year term of office. The electoral divisions were somewhat changed from the previous election, with some being split, merged or with boundary changes. No elections were held in Portsmouth and Southampton, which are unitary authorities and hold their elections in other years. Similarly the districts within Hampshire did also not hold elections this year.


2017 Hampshire County Council election, Summary
The incumbent Conservatives (majority since 1997) increased their majority from 45 to 56, over a two thirds majority, whilst the Liberal Democrats, the second largest party, won two new seats, increasing their seats to 19.The Liberal Democrats performed best around Winchester, and Eastleigh, whilst the Conservatives performed well across rural areas. Labour and UKIP meanwhile both lost seats, with Labour losing two of their four seats in Basingstoke, whilst UKIP lost all representation across the County.


2017 Hampshire County Council election, Summary
Community Campaign (Hart) managed to retain their only seat, Church Crookham & Ewshot, while also standing in a second county seat for the first time in Fleet Town, where they came second place after the Conservatives, who won with a majority of 508. The Green Party also increased their vote share, but failed to gain representation. The sole Independent incumbent, in Lymington, lost their seat.


2017 Hampshire County Council election, Boundary changes
The Local Government Boundary Commission for England undertook a review of boundaries during the previous council's term. An Order to enact the boundary changes was made in October 2016 and took effect at this election.


2017 Hampshire County Council election, Results by electoral division
Hampshire County Council is divided into 11 districts, which are split further into electoral divisions. Asterisks denote incumbent Councillors seeking re-election. Councillors seeking re-election were elected in 2013, and results are compared to that year's polls on that basis.


2017 Hampshire County Council election, Results by electoral division, Basingstoke and Deane (10 seats)
Stephen Reid was the incumbent councillor for a neighboring ward, Basingstoke North West.


2017 Hampshire County Council election, Results by electoral division, East Hampshire (7 seats)
Adam Carew was originally elected to Hampshire County Council in 2005 as a Liberal Democrat. Two months after the previous election, in July 2013, he defected to the Conservatives.


2017 Hampshire County Council election, Results by electoral division, Eastleigh (8 seats)
Changes compared with the old Botley & Hedge End ward.


2017 Hampshire County Council election, Results by electoral division, Eastleigh (8 seats)
No Christian candidate as previous (-1). Changes compared with the old Eastleigh East ward, which is largely similar to this ward in all but name.


2017 Hampshire County Council election, Results by electoral division, Eastleigh (8 seats)
No Green candidate (-2), No Monster Raving Loony candidate (-1) and No TUSC candidate (-0) as previous. Changes compared with the old Eastleigh West ward, which is largely similar to this ward in all but name.


2017 Hampshire County Council election, Results by electoral division, Eastleigh (8 seats)
No comparisons available for this ward as no direct predecessor ward exists. The ward is made up of a large part of the old Botley and Hedge End ward while also encompassing small parts of the old Hamble ward and the old West End and Hedge End Grange Park ward.


2017 Hampshire County Council election, Results by electoral division, Eastleigh (8 seats)
Martin Lyon was the incumbent UKIP councillor for Bishopstoke and Fair Oak. Changes compared with the old West End and Hedge End Grange Park ward.


2017 Hampton Downs TRS round
The 2017 Hampton Downs TRS round was the third round of the 2017 Toyota Racing Series. The event was held at Hampton Downs Motorsport Park, in North Waikato, New Zealand from 28 to 29 January 2017.


2017 Hampton Downs TRS round, Background
Heading into the weekend, Richard Verschoor leads the championship by an extensive margin. Strong, consistent performances from the young Dutchman meant he was the man to beat. Other strong performances in the field included the likes of Thomas Randle, who was a constant front runner in the first two rounds of the championship.


2017 Hampton Downs TRS round, Report, Practice
Thomas Randle demonstrated his pace early on by taking out four out of the five practice sessions and broke the track record in the process. Pedro Piquet took out the second practice session, narrowly beating out Randle.


2017 Hampton Downs TRS round, Report, Race 1, Qualifying
Randle dominated qualifying by taking pole position by nearly two-tenths of a second over Jehan Daruvala. They were followed by Armstrong, Leitch and Piquet.


2017 Hampton Downs TRS round, Report, Race 1, Race
After a chaotic start which saw Leitch and Daruvala tumbling down the order, Marcus Armstrong came through to win his second race of the year. An early red flag saw the race restarted with a shortened distance. After losing out the lead,


2017 Hampton Downs TRS round, Report, Race 3, Qualifying
Randle once again snatched pole position, though this time with a narrow margin over Daruvala. They were followed by Piquet, Verschoor and Armstrong.


2017 Hampton Downs TRS round, Report, Race 3, Race
After a chaotic start which saw Leitch and Daruvala tumbling down the order, Marcus Armstrong came through to win his second race of the year. An early red flag saw the race restarted with a shortened distance. After losing out the lead,


2017 Hampton Pirates football team
The 2017 Hampton Pirates football team represented Hampton University in the 2017 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by fourth-year head coach Connell Maynor and played their home games at Armstrong Stadium. They were a member of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC). They finished the season 6–5, 5–3 in MEAC play to finish in a tie for fourth place.


2017 Hampton Pirates football team
This was Hampton's final season as a member of the MEAC. On November 16, 2017, the school announced they would become a full member of the Big South Conference in 2018. Due to scheduling reasons, they were to remain in the MEAC for football in 2018. However, the MEAC refused to allow Hampton to remain in the conference, with no MEAC schools agreeing to play them, forcing the Pirates to become an FCS independent for 2018 before joining the Big South in 2019.


2017 Hampton Pirates football team
On November 20, 2017, head coach Connell Maynor resigned to become the head coach at Alabama A&M. He finished at Hampton with a four-year record of 20–25.


2017 Handball League Australia
The 2017 Australian Handball League is the second season round robin handball league in Australia. The principal idea was to play round robin games in each capital city. There are four teams representing four states.


2017 Handzame Classic
The 2017 Handzame Classic was the 7th edition of the Handzame Classic road cycling one day race. It was held on 17 March 2017 as part of the 2017 UCI Europe Tour in category 1.1.


2017 Handzame Classic
The race was won by Kristoffer Halvorsen of Joker Icopal.


2017 Handzame Classic, Teams
Twenty-two teams of up to eight riders started the race:


2017 Hanoi hostage crisis
Thirty-eight Vietnamese police officers were taken hostage by villagers in Đồng Tâm commune, Mỹ Đức District, Hanoi on April 15, 2017, after police arrested 4 villagers without a warrant in a land dispute. A total of 38 hostages were taken, including the Mỹ Đức district Deputy Chief of the Peoples' Committee Đặng Văn Triều, Deputy Chief of Public Security Nguyễn Thanh Tùng, Propaganda Chief of the district Party Committee Đặng Văn Cảnh, and two journalists. Two days after the initial hostage-taking, 3 detainees were released by the police in Hanoi, including the main representative of the people in the land dispute, Mr. Lê Đình Kình, an 82-year-old man who was injured and hospitalized. In response, the villagers released 15 policemen; three more managed to escape.


2017 Hanoi hostage crisis
On April 22, the villagers released the remainder of the hostages after securing concessions from the government. However, 3 years later a thousand policemen came back to the village and killed the village representative.


2017 Hanoi hostage crisis
Disputes over land rights are common in Vietnam, government agencies reserve the right to seize farmland for construction and investment projects. The crisis was a rare act of defiance in Vietnam, where anger against official corruption and land seizures simmers, but is usually met with a forceful response from police.


2017 Hanoi hostage crisis, Cause
The incident was triggered by the Đồng Tâm commune's opposition to the Mỹ Đức District government assigning their land to the Viettel Group, a business firm owned and managed by the Vietnamese Ministry of Defence, for the construction of their factory complex.


2017 Hanoi hostage crisis, Cause
According to the newspaper Người Cao Tuổi, the area of Miếu Môn (adjacent to Đồng Tâm) served as the site of a temporary airport during the war. In 1980, following the Sino-Vietnamese War, the government of Vietnam retrieved 208 ha to build an airport there, 47.36 ha of which served as agricultural land of Đồng Tâm. Because the project was not implemented, Brigade 28 of the Vietnam People's Air Force returned the land to Đồng Tâm.


2017 Hanoi hostage crisis, Cause
In 2014, the city council of Hanoi once again returned a total of 236.7 hectares (585 acres)—28.7 ha more than the initial 208 ha—to the Ministry of Defense. The people in Đồng Tâm claimed 28.7 ha as part their agricultural land. In 2015, the Vietnamese Ministry of Defense allocated 50 ha of this land to the Viettel Group, which included 46 ha belonging to Đồng Tâm.


2017 Hanoi hostage crisis, Events, Villager view
On April 15, 2017, according to a villager who spoke to the BBC, the police invited representatives of the villagers involved in the land dispute to come to measure the border between the military and agricultural land. They then detained the four representatives without arrest warrants. Some of the villagers tried to retrieve them and there was a clash with the police. Five more villagers were detained. One young villager was severely injured and had to be taken to the hospital. Other police officers tried to disperse the crowd, but more than 30 of them were taken hostage. By 17 April, journalists and other individuals had arrived to try to negotiate to release the 38 hostages.


2017 Hanoi hostage crisis, Events, Authorities' report
According to the Hanoi authorities there was a misuse of the military land and on 30 March, they decided to start a trial because of disrupting public order, which was why they came to arrest four people. Hanoi authorities said they are taking measures to rein in the situation with priority given to rescuing the detained officers. They have also urged the residents to stay calm and cooperate and ensure the safety of the officers. Till now, that is the content of the only article of Vietnam News Agency, that  was published by all the official newspapers about this case accept one more of Vnexpress.


2017 Hanoi hostage crisis, Events, 17 April
There was news that the district government cut the electricity and Internet connections of the commune.


2017 Hanoi hostage crisis, Events, 17 April
Lawyer Trần Vũ Hải wrote in an article in Facebook, that other lawyers Nguyễn Hà Luân, Lê Văn Luân and he had arrived at the village and were negotiating with both sides. The villagers said they don't trust the police from the commune and the district. The mayor of Hanoi, Nguyễn Đức Chung, should come to fetch the hostages but first release the detained villagers. They also showed their anger that the public Vietnamese television did not report the case correctly.


2017 Hanoi hostage crisis, Events, 17 April
The mayor of Hanoi promised to release the detainee in an hour and involve in the land dispute himself to solve the case and punish the wrongdoers, and he will go to see the villagers on the 18th. The police of Hanoi also has released three detainees. The main representative, Lê Đình Kinh, 82 tuổi, was injured and was taken to the hospital to be operated on. In exchange, the villagers released 15 policemen, 3 more have escaped. There are 20 hostages left.


2017 Hanoi hostage crisis, Events, 18 April
The next day lawyer Trần Vũ Hải said Mayor Chung told him to correct his writing, that he did not promise anything. But Hai said, that he was not the only one that heard the conversation between the villagers and mayor Chung. Besides the villagers and him, other lawyers who came together with him could also hear it.


2017 Hanoi hostage crisis, Events, 18 April
Major general Bạch Thành Định from the Ministry Public Security said: "as chief of investigation department of the Public Security in Hanoi I confirm that the temporary release of the detainees (3) is not a deal with the local revolters." He also emphasized that he would determine to take the leaders of the group, who distorted the truth to cause the revolt, to court. Until noon of the 18th, roads to the village were still blocked by piles of big wooden logs and mounds of gravel.


2017 Hanoi hostage crisis, Events, 18 April
In the evening of 18 April, deputy chief of the committee of party members of the capital of Hà Nội Đào Đức Toàn stated that they delegated mayor Nguyễn Đức Chung to meet, discuss and solve the pressing issues of the people of the district of  Mỹ Đức.


2017 Hanoi hostage crisis, Events, 19 April
The members of Parliament from the city of Hải Phòng, Lê Thanh Vân and from the province of Đồng Nai, Dương Trung Quốc had the same opinion, that Hà Nội mayor Nguyễn Đức Chung should soon discuss about the issue with the villagers of Đồng Tâm. Quốc said: "(to build) belief is not better than to speak with the people”. Lê Thanh Vân asked, “a military project to build an airport started from 1980 till now, because of national security, stop and start again waisting for the use of agriculture land for many years. Why? The people of Đồng Tâm have a need to speak to the mayor of Hanoi but till now there is no answer. Why?...”


2017 Hanoi hostage crisis, Events, 20 April
In the afternoon of 20 April, mayor Nguyễn Đức Chung went to district Mỹ Đức, 15 km from Đồng Tâm, to discuss with the committee of the party members in the district, how to deal with the people of Đồng Tâm. Speaking to the online newspaper Zing.vn, a villager in Đồng Tâm said, that they have received an announcement that every village should send 10 people to the district office to discuss with the mayor of Hà Nội Nguyễn Đức Chung. "We rather want Mr. Chung to go to Đồng Tâm to discuss with the people than we go to the district", he said.


2017 Hanoi hostage crisis, Events, 20 April
At the press conference in the afternoon of 20 April, answering foreign news media (news agency Reuters and TV Channel News Asia of Singapore) about the event in Đồng Tâm, Mỹ Đức, speaker Lê Thị Thu Hằng from the Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs said, the city Hà Nội is dealing with the event according to the Vietnamese law, guarantee the legal interest of everyone involved.


2017 Hanoi hostage crisis, Events, 21 April
In the meeting yesterday, there was only a representative of the commune Đồng Tâm, no villager attended. Chung said: "Tomorrow, the day after that I still ready to discuss directly with the villagers of Đồng Tâm..." and appeal to them to obey the law and take the roadblocks away, release the 20 police officers and officials at the hamlet Hoành back to their family.


2017 Hanoi hostage crisis, Events, 21 April
Member of the parliament from Hà Nội Trần Thị Quốc Khánh informed, in the morning of 21/4, Member of the parlement group from Hà Nội will meet the voters from Mỹ Đức district. She said: "since the election and being elected here it has not been 1 year yet, I had some meeting with the voters, but nobody has reflected this matter with Hà Nội's parlement representatives yet. We are ready to listen, we also make our telephone number public for the people to call any time. I believe, now the most important thing is discussing, come to and listen to the people. For all the problems, both sides have to act according to the law and not without thinking and only to their feeling.”


2017 Hanoi hostage crisis, Events, 21 April
Also in the morning of 21/4, Lê Đình Ba (deputy chief of hamlet Hoành, Đồng Tâm) informed, villagers have released Đặng Văn Cảnh - political propaganda department chief of Mỹ Đức. He also told, that villagers are tidying the roads to welcome mayor Chung coming to discuss.


2017 Hanoi hostage crisis, Events, 22 April
Mayor Chung came to commune Đồng Tâm in the morning to meet the villagers there (50 invited, other can listen to the loudspeaker from outside) for about more than 2 hours. Nine villagers expressed their view, bringing up issues that were answered by Chung as follows:


2017 Hanoi hostage crisis, Events, 22 April
After that, 19 hostages left were also released. It was also announced later, through village loudspeakers, that Chung pledged not to investigate the criminal responsibility of the people in this incident.


2017 Hanoi hostage crisis, Police investigation
On June 13, Vietnamese police began a criminal investigation of farmers in Đồng Tâm village, despite a promise by Hanoi’s mayor not to prosecute them as a result of hostage-release negotiations during an April standoff between villagers and the local government. The investigation is focusing on the illegal detention of 38 police officers and officials and acts of vandalism allegedly committed by farmers after a clash over the government’s seizure of land in Đồng Tâm village in Hanoi's Mỹ Đức district.


2017 Hanoi hostage crisis, 2020 Đồng Tâm raid
On dawn 9 January 2020, more than one thousand policemen carried out a raid on the village and killed Lê Đình Kình, the village representative. Three police officers were also killed during the clash. 20 villagers who were involved in the land dispute and hostage taking were arrested and prosecuted.


2017 Hanoi hostage crisis, 2020 Đồng Tâm raid
According to a land rights activist, Lê Đình Kình was shot four times, in front of his wife.


2017 Hanthawaddy United season
Hanthawaddy United Football Club (Burmese: ဟံသာဝတီ ယူနိုက်တက် ဘောလုံး အသင်း) is a Burmese football club, based in Taungoo, Myanmar, and represents the Bago Region. The club was a founding member of the Myanmar National League (MNL) in 2009.


2017 Hanthawaddy United season, Current squad (2017)
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2017 Har Adar shooting
On the morning of 26 September 2017, a Palestinian gunman opened fire at Israeli security guards at the entrance gate of Har Adar, an Israeli settlement and affluent residential border community of Jerusalem located largely on the other side of the green line within the West Bank. Three Israeli security guards were killed and a fourth was injured. The gunman was shot dead by the remaining guards. The Israeli authorities described the attack as an 'act of terrorism'.


2017 Har Adar shooting, Background
Har Adar was initially built adjacent to the Green Line but has grown past it since the 1967 Six-Day War and is now largely located within the West Bank. Two hundred Palestinian workers enter the town through the gate where the attack took place daily. Around 100,000 Palestinians hold permits that allow them to work in Israel and within Israeli settlements, mostly as manual laborers.


2017 Har Adar shooting, Attack
The attack took place as the gunman approached an entrance to Har Adar guarded by a border policeman and two civilian security guards. Border policeman Solomon Gavriyah (20) of Be'er Ya'akov was killed, as were civilian security guards Youssef Ottman (25) of Abu Ghosh and Or Arish (25) of Har Adar. A fourth man, the head civilian security officer of Har Adar, was injured. The attacker was shot and killed.


2017 Har Adar shooting, Attack
Prior to the attack two Machsom Watch activists approached the checkpoint, upon which Gavriyah left the checkpoint and requested they step away. Police reported that one of the activists told Ethiopian-Israeli Gavriyah "You are a disgrace", which the activist later denied. Upon Gavriyah returning to his post the attacker began shooting.


2017 Har Adar shooting, Perpetrator
Nimer Mahmoud Ahmad Jamal, a 37-year-old man and a father of four, who was from the neighboring village of Beit Surik, was behind the attack. He held a license to work in Israeli settlements. An initial inquiry into the attack uncovered Jamal suffered from severe personal and family issues, including domestic violence. It was reported that he physically assaulted his wife, and as a result, she fled to Jordan several weeks ago, leaving him with the children. Minutes before carrying out the attack, Jamal sent his wife a message on Facebook Messenger, apologizing for what he was about to do, mourned her departure and said he had been a terrible husband to her.


2017 Har Adar shooting, Perpetrator
In another Facebook posting, also made just before the attack, Jamal said he "feared no one but God."


2017 Hardee's Pro Classic
The 2017 Hardee's Pro Classic was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the seventeenth edition of the tournament and part of the 2017 ITF Women's Circuit, offering a total of $60,000 in prize money. It took place in Dothan, United States, from 17–23 April 2017.


2017 Hardee's Pro Classic, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2017 Hardee's Pro Classic, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received entry into the singles main draw by a protected ranking:


2017 Hardee's Pro Classic, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received entry into the singles main draw by a junior exempt:


2017 Hardee's Pro Classic, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following player received entry into the singles main draw by a lucky loser:


2017 Hardee's Pro Classic – Doubles
Julia Glushko and Alexandra Panova were the defending champions, but both players chose not to participate.


2017 Hardee's Pro Classic – Doubles
Emina Bektas and Sanaz Marand won the title, defeating Kristie Ahn and Lizette Cabrera in the final, 6–3, 1–6, [10–2].


2017 Hardee's Pro Classic – Singles
Rebecca Peterson was the defending champion, but chose not to participate.


2017 Hardee's Pro Classic – Singles
Kristie Ahn won the title, defeating Amanda Anisimova in the final, 1–6, 6–2, 6–2.


2017 Harnai bombing
On 14 August 2017, an improvised explosive device targeted a Frontier Corps (FC) vehicle in Harnai district of Pakistan's southwestern Balochistan province. The attack left 8 FC troops dead. The Balochistan Liberation Army claimed responsibility for the attack.


2017 Harnai bombing, Background
Balochistan has witnessed separatist movement led by Baloch nationalist parties. Their objective is to achieve a separate and independent Balochistan state. The separatists' parties have been banned and are designated as terrorist organizations by the Pakistani government. In May 2017, these separatist militants carried out an attack on labourers working in Gwadar, Balochistan killing ten.


2017 Harnai bombing, Bombing
On 14 August 2017, Pakistan's 70th independence day, the Frontier Corps troops were on a routine patrol between Shahrag and Khost areas when their vehicle hit an improvised explosive device (IED) planted on their route. At the time of the incident, 8 troops were inside the vehicle out of whom 6 were killed while two were wounded. The next day, the two injured troops succumbed to their injuries rasing the death toll to eight.


2017 Harnai bombing, Bombing, Victims
The six troops killed immediately after the explosion were identified as Lance Naik Yousaf Imran, Sepoys Shahabuddin, Muhammad Fayyaz, Muhammad Omer, Naeem and Fazlur Rehman. The following two death casualties were Subedar Hayatullah and driver Saadullah.


2017 Harnai bombing, Response, Security forces
Security forces reached the site and started a search operation. Commander Southern Command Lieutenant-General Amir Riaz and Inspector General FC Balochistan Major-General Nadeem Ahmed Anjum visited Harnai and chaired a high-level meeting to review the security situation.


2017 Harnai bombing, Response, Security forces
On 31 August 2017, according to Dawn News, ten suspected militants were killed and three alleged militant camps were destroyed in an operation carried out by security forces in Balochistan's Harnai district. A large cache of arms and ammunition was also recovered during the operation.


2017 Harnai bombing, Response, Government
The Prime Minister of Pakistan Shahid Khaqan Abbasi condemned the attack saying, "Attack on this day, when the entire nation celebrates Independence Day will not deter our valiant forces from its duty towards the motherland. It is these soldiers who ensure our freedom through their sacrifices". CM Balochistan Sanaullah Zehri condemned the attack and said, "No effort would be spared to bring the culprits involved in this terrorist act to justice.


2017 Harnai bombing, Response, Perpetrators
A spokesman for Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) claimed responsibility for the attack. He said, "The BLA has carried out a remote-controlled blast, which caused the death of eight soldiers".


2017 Harrisburg City Islanders season
The 2017 season was the Harrisburg City Islanders's 14th season of competitive soccer - its first in the second division of American soccer, and its seventh season in United Soccer League.


2017 Harrisburg City Islanders season
This was the club's final season under its original name, with the club renamed Penn FC (in full, Penn Football Club) shortly after the end of the season.


2017 Harrisburg City Islanders season, Review
For the 2017 season, the City Islanders played all their home matches at FNB Field rather than splitting time between Harrisburg and Clipper Magazine Stadium in Lancaster. This decision was made to focus on marketing the team more intently in Harrisburg area.


2017 Harrisburg City Islanders season, Review
The 2017 season marked the first time the City Islanders competed in the second division of American soccer after USL was granted provisional Division II status.


2017 Harrisburg City Islanders season, Review
The season would also kick off under new majority ownership joined by George Altirs of Capelli Sports. The new ownership has intended to invest in the club to keep up with the growing league and keep the team in Harrisburg. Despite additional investment and club connections to Ghanaian club, International Allies F.C., the City Islanders failed to make the playoffs for the third consecutive season.


2017 Harrisburg City Islanders season, Review
At the conclusion of the season, it was announced that the Harrisburg City Islanders would be re-branded as Penn FC for the 2018 season marking the end of the "City Islanders" name after 14 seasons.


2017 Harrisburg City Islanders season, Competitions, USL, Results summary
Last updated: December 2, 2017Source: 2017 USL seasonPld = Matches played; Pts = Points; W = Matches won;  T = Matches tied;  L = Matches lost; GF = Goals for; GA = Goals against; GD = Goal difference


2017 Harrisburg City Islanders season, Competitions, U.S. Open Cup
The City Islanders competed in the 2017 edition of the U.S. Open Cup, entering the competition in the second round. They were eliminated in the fourth round to the Philadelphia Union for the second consecutive year.


2017 Harrisburg mayoral election
The 2017 mayoral election in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania was held on November 7, 2017, and resulted in incumbent mayor Eric Papenfuse, a member of the Democratic Party, being re-elected to a second term.


2017 Harrisburg mayoral election, Campaign
Papenfuse was challenged in the Democratic primary by Lewis Butts, political newcomer Anthony Harrell, former police officer Jennie Jenkins, and former Harrisburg City Council president Gloria Martin-Roberts. A debate featuring the Democratic primary candidates was held on May 2, 2017.


2017 Harvard Crimson football team
The 2017 Harvard Crimson football team represented Harvard University during the 2017 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by 24th-year head coach Tim Murphy and played their home games at Harvard Stadium. They were a member of the Ivy League. They finished the season 5–5 overall and 3–4 in Ivy League play to tie for fifth place.


2017 Harvard Crimson football team, Schedule
The 2017 schedule consisted of five home games and five away games. The Crimson hosted Ivy League foes Brown, Princeton, Dartmouth, and Penn, and traveled to Cornell, Columbia, and Yale for the 134th edition of The Game.


2017 Harvard Crimson football team, Schedule
Harvard's non-conference opponents were Rhode Island of the Colonial Athletic Association, and Georgetown and Lafayette of the Patriot League.


2017 Harvard Crimson football team, Game summaries, Columbia
at Robert K. Kraft Field at Lawrence A. Wien Stadium • New York, NY


2017 Hassan Rouhani presidential campaign
Hassan Rouhani, the incumbent President of Iran, launched his reelection campaign for the Presidential office in February 2017. The election itself and related events received international media attention with many issues being raised. Rouhani achieved a decisive victory after the May 2017 vote, with Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli announcing that out of 41.3 million total votes cast Rouhani got 23.6 million. Ebrahim Raisi, Rouhani's closest rival, had picked up 15.8 million votes in contrast.


2017 Hassan Rouhani presidential campaign, Early stages
The incumbent President Hassan Rouhani was considered a potential candidate in 2015. On 25 October 2016, Iranian interior minister Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli said that President Hassan Rouhani is “sure to run for a second term”. On 13 January 2017, Mahmoud Vaezi said Moderation and Development Party will back Rouhani in the election. Rouhani himself never announced bid for re-election.


2017 Hassan Rouhani presidential campaign, Branding and record
In the summer of 2013 Rouhani was up against serious problems in almost every key sector of the Iranian economy. The economic picture is incomparably better today than it was three years ago. Inflation has declined from 40 to 10%, and the rial’s exchange rate has stabilized at its level from the year President Rouhani was elected. Rouhani has restored a sense of security by preventing hyperinflation and shortages. Peace with world major powers on the basis of Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action at the time he was done.


2017 Hassan Rouhani presidential campaign, Branding and record
Removing the nuclear sanctions was among Rouhani campaign promises in 2013 and according to his administration, all nuclear-related sanctions, except for certain restrictions in banking, have been lifted following the nuclear deal between Tehran and world powers. The administration Rouhani also succeeded in increasing Iran’s revenues via boosting oil and gas outputs and growing gas condensate exports. Iran oil exports have doubled since the deal took effect and major problems in the way of securing insurance for cargoes carrying oil from Iran have been resolved.


2017 Hassan Rouhani presidential campaign, Branding and record
Iran there has been an uptick in Asian and European trade with Iran, mainly due to the expansion of Iranian oil exports, which now stand at 2.5 million bpd. Foreigners have shown interest in making investments in the country and sharing their technologic know-how in various industrial fields. Consequently, the Rouhani administration succeeded in signing various agreements to attract foreign investments for implementing infrastructure projects to revamp road, rail, and air transport systems. He extension government campaign by name "Again Iran" and We cannot go back. Rouhani campaign symbol is "Election ink" along with "V sign". Is conversation Rouhani government "Freedom, security, peace and progress".


2017 Hassan Rouhani presidential campaign, Meeting
Hassan Rouhani on the big meeting at Azadi Sport Complex said the Iranian nation will decide between the path of "calm or tension" in the next presidential election, which he called "decisive". Addressing a stadium packed with tens of thousands of supporters, Rouhani, who seeks another four-year term in office in the May 19 vote, said the nation on Election day should show the world that it is "determined for the future of Iran, not to sell it out. Rouhani said 12th government to promote justice, reforms Iran spared no efforts to transform the image of extremism and violence to image of hope and justice and reformist way.


2017 Hassan Rouhani presidential campaign, Positions, Economics
Rouhani said "If we want a better economy, we should not let groups with security and political backing to get involved in the economy," Rouhani said during the debate, in an unmistakable swipe at the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, an elite military force with a vast business empire, which has backed his main hardline opponent Ebrahim Raisi. Rouhani said at telecast “Some believe that unemployment can be tackled simply by distributing money or claiming to create plenty of jobs, while what is actually required to raise employment is making people look hopefully at future and feel calm and safe”.


2017 Hassan Rouhani presidential campaign, Positions, Foreign policy
Rouhani said at Isfahan and Mazandaran "Dear people of Iran, vote for freedom. I am ready to get the remaining sanctions lifted if elected. Rouhani said, Lifting the remaining sanctions would be difficult, as Khamenei, who has the last say on all state matters, has flatly rejected normalization of ties with the United States.


2017 Hassan Rouhani presidential campaign, Positions, Social rights
Rouhani said in Shiroudi hall meeting, “We won’t accept gender discrimination, we won’t accept gender oppression we want social and political freedom,” he said amid occasional eruptions of chants in support of opposition leaders under house arrest, Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi and Mohammad Khatami dear for people. Rouhani is considered a moderate pro-dialogue President. He encourages personal freedom and free access to information. Rouhani advocates the free functioning of social networks. Rouhani to say Ebrahim Raisi, "I am surprised. Those of you who talk about freedom of speech these days".


2017 Hassan Rouhani presidential campaign, Positions, Young generation
Rouhani against rivals said “We are here to tell pro-violence extremists that your era has come to an end”, “You hardliners cannot stand against our youth’s choice of freedom and progress.”


2017 Hassan Rouhani presidential campaign, Media coverage
Rouhani's campaign publishes a newspaper named National Aspiration. His TV documentary was censored by IRIB.


2017 Hawaii Bowl
The 2017 Hawaii Bowl was a post-season American college football bowl game played on December 24, 2017, at Aloha Stadium in Honolulu, Hawaii. The sixteenth edition of the Hawaii Bowl featured the Houston Cougars from the American Athletic Conference against the Fresno State Bulldogs from the Mountain West Conference. The game was one of the 2017–18 bowl games concluding the 2017 FBS football season. Fresno State defeated Houston, 33–27.


2017 Hawaii Bowl, Teams
Houston entered the game with an overall record of 7–4 (5–3 in conference), while Fresno State entered the game with a 9–4 overall record (7–2 in conference). This was the first meeting between the schools.


2017 Hawaii Rainbow Warriors football team
The 2017 Hawaii Rainbow Warriors football team represented the University of Hawaii at Manoa in the 2017 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Rainbow Warriors played their home games at Aloha Stadium in Honolulu. They competed in the West Division of the Mountain West Conference and were led by second-year head coach Nick Rolovich. They finished the season 3–9, 1–7 in Mountain West play to finish in a tie for fifth place in the West Division. This marked the seventh straight losing season, continuing a school record, compiling a record of 29-62 since 2011.


2017 Hawaii Rainbow Warriors football team, Schedule
Although NCAA rules allow Hawaii to play a 13-game regular season, only 12 games were scheduled for Hawaii's 2017 season.


2017 Hawaii Rainbow Warriors football team, Schedule
☆Spectrum Sports Hawaii simulcast the UMass game. The game was available on Spectrum Sports Hawaii statewide and was not part of the teams PPV package.


2017 Hawaii Tennis Open
The 2017 Hawaii Tennis Open was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the second edition of the tournament and part of the 2017 WTA 125K series, offering a total of $115,000 in prize money. It took place in Waipio near Honolulu, United States, on 20–26 November 2017.


2017 Hawaii Tennis Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following player received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2017 Hawaii Tennis Open – Doubles
Eri Hozumi and Miyu Kato were the defending champions, but Kato chose not to participate this year. Hozumi played alongside Asia Muhammad, but lost in the final to sisters Hsieh Shu-ying and Hsieh Su-wei, 1–6, 6–7(3–7).


2017 Hawaii Tennis Open – Doubles, Seeds
The top two seeds received a bye into the quarterfinals.


2017 Hawaii Tennis Open – Singles
Catherine Bellis was the defending champion but withdrew before the competition began.


2017 Hawaii Tennis Open – Singles
Zhang Shuai won the title, defeating Jang Su-jeong in the final, 0–6, 6–2, 6–3.


2017 Hawke's Bay Cup
The 2017 Hawke's Bay Cup was the 4th edition of the invitational Hawke's Bay Cup competition. It took place between 31 March–9 April 2017 in Hastings,  New Zealand. A total of four teams competed for the title.


2017 Hawke's Bay Cup
New Zealand won the tournament for the second time after defeating Japan 3–0 in the final. Australia won the third place match by defeating United States 3–1 in a penalty shoot-out following a 1–1 draw.


2017 Hawke's Bay Cup, Teams
Including New Zealand, 4 teams were invited by the New Zealand Hockey Federation to participate in the tournament.


2017 Hawthorn Football Club season
The 2017 season was the Hawthorn Football Club's 93rd season in the Australian Football League and 116th overall, the 18th season playing home games at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, the 17th season playing home games at the newly named University of Tasmania Stadium, the 13th season under head coach Alastair Clarkson, and the 1st season with Jarryd Roughead as club captain. This was the first time since 2013 that Hawthorn didn't enter the season as the defending premiers.


2017 Hawthorn Football Club season
Hawthorn started the season 0–4 for the first time since 1998. Hawthorn failed to match their 17–5 record from 2016, finishing in 12th with a 10–11–1 record. With Hawthorn's 7 point loss to Carlton in round 22, they were eliminated from finals contention for this first time since 2009. This was also the first time since 2005, Hawthorn were defeated by Carlton. This was also the first time under Clarkson that no player kicked 50 goals for the season.


2017 Hawthorn Football Club season, Club summary
The 2017 AFL season is the 121st season of the VFL/AFL competition since its inception in 1897; having entered the competition in 1925, it was the 93rd season contested by the Hawthorn Football Club. Tasmania and iiNet continued as the club's two major sponsors, as they had done since 2006 and 2013 respectively, while Adidas continued to manufacture the club's on-and-off field apparel, as they had done since 2013. Hawthorn continued its alignment with the Box Hill Hawks Football Club in the Victorian Football League, allowing Hawthorn-listed players to play with the Box Hill Hawks when not selected in AFL matches.


2017 Hawthorn Football Club season, Senior personnel
Alastair Clarkson continued as the club's head coach for the thirteenth consecutive season. In a surprise announcement, Jarryd Roughead replaced Luke Hodge as the club's captain on 20 January 2017 after the latter had led the club since 2011.


2017 Hawthorn Football Club season, Senior personnel
It was announced in December 2016 that Stuart Fox would leave his position as the club's Chief Executive Officer to take up the same position with the Melbourne Cricket Club at the end of February 2017. On 1 May, Tracey Gaudry was appointed the club's new CEO.


2017 Hawthorn Football Club season, Playing list changes
The following lists all player changes between the conclusion of the 2016 season and the beginning of the 2017 season.


2017 Hawthorn Football Club season, Season summary, Pre-season matches
The club played three practice matches as part of the 2017 JLT Community Series, and will be played under modified pre-season rules, including nine-point goals.


2017 Hawthorn Football Club season, Season summary, Premiership season, Fixture summary
The full fixture was announced on 27 October 2016. The Melbourne Cricket Ground once again acted as Hawthorn's primary home ground, hosting six of the club's eleven home games, with four home games played at their secondary home ground, University of Tasmania Stadium, in Launceston, and one home game played at Etihad Stadium against the Western Bulldogs in round 23. The club's opponents for the four games in Launceston were St Kilda, Brisbane Lions, Greater Western Sydney and North Melbourne in rounds six, eight, 16 and 21 respectively, while the club played Adelaide, Collingwood, Geelong, Gold Coast and Sydney twice during the regular season.


2017 Hawthorn Football Club season, Season summary, Premiership season, Fixture summary
The Hawks began the 2017 season with a 25-point loss to Essendon, which welcomed six of its banned players back from a season-long suspension which had spanned the entire 2016 season, at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in round one; due to the weighted rule, it was the only time the clubs met during the regular season. The club's first home game came the following round, when it hosted 2016 finalists Adelaide at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in round two.


2017 Hawthorn Football Club season, Season summary, Premiership season, Fixture summary
It travelled to Adelaide twice for matches against Port Adelaide and Adelaide (for a second time) in rounds 11 and 14 respectively, while it also travelled to the Gold Coast, Sydney and Perth once each, in rounds three, ten and eighteen respectively. Additionally, it played three Friday night matches (two against Sydney and one against the Western Bulldogs) and two Thursday night matches (both at the Adelaide Oval) during the regular season, while ten of the club's 21 matches were broadcast on free-to-air.


2017 Hawthorn Football Club season, Season summary, Premiership season, Fixture summary
Based on its finishing position from 2016, Hawthorn's fixture was rated the second-most difficult (only behind Greater Western Sydney) by The Age; it was the fifth consecutive season in which it has been dealt either the most or second-most difficult fixture of any club.


2017 Hayatabad suicide bombing
On February 15, 2017, a suicide bomber targeted a government van carrying civil judges in Hayatabad. The attack was claimed by Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan.


2017 Hazfi Cup Final
The 2017 Hazfi Cup Final was the 30th final since 1975. Both teams were in a poor form at the domestic league, the Hazfi cup final was the door towards AFC Champions League group-stage. If Tractor Sazi won, it meant that Naft Tehran would go to AFC Champions League play-offs, and it would be the opposite if Naft Tehran won. Both sides were coached by one of the best Iranian coaches; Ali Daei and Amir Ghalenoei.


2017 Hazfi Cup Final
The game was fairly dominated by Tractor Sazi but they missed most of their chances and a 27th-minute penalty miss certainly brought hopes to Naft Tehran players. Naft Tehran proved football match is 90 minutes and battled until the last chance, Sajjad Shahbazzadeh's 88th-minute goal made Naft Tehran clinch the title.


2017 Hazfi Cup Final, Format
The tie was contested over one leg, just like the last edition. If the teams could still not be separated, then extra time would have been played with a penalty shootout (taking place if the teams were still level after that).


2017 Hazfi Cup Final, Pre-match, Match history
This was Tractor Sazi's fourth Hazfi final and Naft Tehran's second appearance in the final match of the tournament. Tractor Sazi lastly won the cup in 2013–14, and became runners-up 2 times in 1976 and 1995. Naft Tehran appeared at the final in 2015 and lost to Zob Ahan, Naft Tehran is looking for its first Hazfi Cup title.


2017 Healthy Ageing Tour
The 2017 Healthy Ageing Tour was a women's cycle stage race that is being held in the Netherlands from 4 to 8 April 2018. The 2017 edition of the race was the seventh running of the Healthy Ageing Tour, being held with a UCI rating of 2.1.


2017 Healthy Ageing Tour, Classification leadership table
In the 2017 Healthy Ageing Tour, six different jerseys were awarded. For the general classification, calculated by adding each cyclist's finishing times on each stage, and allowing time bonuses for the first three finishers at intermediate sprints and at the finish of mass-start stages, the leader received a yellow jersey. This classification was considered the most important of the 2018 Healthy Ageing Tour, and the winner of the classification was considered the winner of the race.


2017 Healthy Ageing Tour, Classification leadership table
Additionally, there was a points classification, which awarded a green jersey. In the points classification, cyclists received points for finishing in the top 15 in a stage. For winning a stage, a rider earned 25 points, with 20 for second, 16 for third, 14 for fourth, 12 for fifth, 10 for sixth with a point fewer per place down to a single point for 15th place. The third classification was the sprints classification, the leader of which was awarded an orange jersey. In the sprints classification, riders received points for finishing in the top three at intermediate sprint points during each stage.


2017 Healthy Ageing Tour, Classification leadership table
The fourth jersey represented the young rider classification, marked by a white jersey. This was decided in the same way as the general classification, but only riders born after 1 January 1996 were eligible to be ranked in the classification. Other jerseys were awarded to the best club rider amongst the amateur riders (blue), and for the most courageous rider showing fighting spirit (purple). There was also a classification for teams, in which the times of the best three cyclists per team on each stage were added together; the leading team at the end of the race was the team with the lowest total time.


2017 Heart of Dallas Bowl
The 2017 Heart of Dallas Bowl was an American college football bowl game played on December 26, 2017, at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas, Texas. It was one of the 2017–18 bowl games concluding the 2017 FBS football season. The 8th edition of the Heart of Dallas Bowl, it was sponsored by fast food chicken restaurant Zaxby's, and was officially known as the Zaxby's Heart of Dallas Bowl.


2017 Heart of Dallas Bowl
The game featured the Utah Utes from the Pac-12 Conference against the West Virginia Mountaineers from the Big 12 Conference. Utah defeated West Virginia, 30–14.


2017 Heart of Dallas Bowl, Team selection
The game featured conference tie-ins with teams from Conference USA and the Big 12 Conference. However, the bowl instead invited a team from the Pac-12 Conference. This was the second all-time meeting between the two schools, with the first occurring in the 1964 Liberty Bowl. It was the first Heart of Dallas Bowl for each team.


2017 Heart of Dallas Bowl, Media
The game was broadcast by ESPN, and kicked off at 1:30 PM ET.


2017 Heat Latin Music Awards
The 2017 Heat Latin Music Awards were held on June 8, 2017 at Cap Cana, Dominican Republic, and was broadcast live through HTV and TBS. The ceremony was hosted by Clarissa Molina and Enrique Santos. The awards celebrates the year's biggest Latin music acts. Farruko and J Balvin led the nominations with four each, followed by Lali and Maluma, with three each. Balvin was the bigger winner of the night with three trophies, including Best Music Video for "Bobo", Best Male Artist and Best Urban Artist".


2017 Heilbronner Neckarcup
The 2017 Heilbronner Neckarcup was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the fourth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2017 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Heilbronn, Germany between 15 and 21 May 2017.


2017 Heilbronner Neckarcup, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2017 Heilbronner Neckarcup – Doubles
Sander Arends and Tristan-Samuel Weissborn were the defending champions but only Weissborn chose to defend his title, partnering Dino Marcan. Weissborn lost in the quarterfinals to Hugo Nys and Max Schnur.


2017 Heilbronner Neckarcup – Doubles
Roman Jebavý and Antonio Šančić won the title after defeating Adil Shamasdin and Igor Zelenay 6–4, 6–1 in the final.


2017 Heilbronner Neckarcup – Singles
Nikoloz Basilashvili was the defending champion but chose not to defend his title.


2017 Heilbronner Neckarcup – Singles
Filip Krajinović won the title after defeating Norbert Gombos 6–3, 6–2 in the final.


2017 Henderson mayoral election
The 2017 Henderson mayoral election was held on April 4, 2017 to elect the mayor of Henderson, Nevada. It saw the election of Debra March.


2017 Herald Sun Tour
The 2017 Jayco Herald Sun Tour was a road cycling stage race that took place in Victoria, Australia, between 1 and 5 February 2017. The race was rated as a 2.1 event as part of the 2017 UCI Oceania Tour. The race included five stages: the first was a 2.1 km (1.3 mi) prologue individual time trial stage, with the remaining four stages being road stages. The champion of the 2016 Herald Sun Tour, Chris Froome attempted to defend his title.


2017 Herald Sun Tour
The race was won by Damien Howson of Orica–Scott, who took his first professional victories at the race; having won the race's queen stage to Falls Creek, Howson was able to maintain a 38-second race lead for the remainder of the Tour. The remaining podium places were taken by those that finished immediately behind Howson at Falls Creek; Jai Hindley finished second for an Australian select team, and took out the white jersey for the young rider classification, while a further 15 seconds in arrears, Kenny Elissonde took third place for Team Sky.


2017 Herald Sun Tour
Just as he did in the 2016 edition of the race, Attaque Team Gusto's Ben Hill won a jersey, this time taking the polka dot jersey as winner of the mountains classification, while Jacob Kauffmann took the green jersey as winner of the sprints classification for the New South Wales Institute of Sport. The teams classification was won by Team Sky, having taking three of the five stage victories through Luke Rowe, Ian Stannard and Danny van Poppel.


2017 Herald Sun Tour, Teams
Fifteen teams were invited to take part in the race. These included two UCI WorldTeams, four UCI Professional Continental teams, seven UCI Continental teams and two national teams.


2017 Herald Sun Tour, Route
The race route was released on 1 December 2016, with a route described by race director, and former three-time race winner, John Trevorrow as the "toughest course in recent history".


2017 Hero Tri-Nation Series
The 2017 Hero Tri-Nation Series was a 3-team association football tournament held at the Mumbai Football Arena in the Indian city of Mumbai between the 19th and 24th of August 2017. The tournament was organized by the AIFF as part of the senior men team's preparation for the third round of 2019 AFC Asian Cup qualification matches. The tournament naming rights were purchased by Hero MotoCorp which also sponsors the national team.


2017 Hero Tri-Nation Series
The tournament received criticism from at least one media outlet, citing that the ₹3.7cr spent to organize the tournament was significantly more than the entire yearly budget for the women's national team. The tournament was originally scheduled to take place at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in Chennai but was changed the week before the tournament because of financial disagreements with the stadium's operators. India Head coach Stephen Constantine revealed that the intention was to hold a 4-team tournament with India competing against teams from the Caribbean, Africa, and Asia. However another Asian team did not participate. India won the tournament with a 1–1 draw with Saint Kitts and Nevis on the final matchday.


2017 Hertfordshire County Council election
The 2017 Hertfordshire County Council election took place on 4 May 2017 as part of the 2017 local elections in the United Kingdom. All 78 councillors were elected from electoral divisions which returned one county councillor each by first-past-the-post voting for a four-year term of office.


2017 Hertfordshire County Council election
Boundary changes to the electoral divisions took effect at this election after a review of the county by the Local Government Boundary Commission for England increasing the number of seats on the council from 77 to 78.


2017 Hi-Tec Oils Bathurst 6 Hour
The 2017 Hi-Tec Oils Bathurst 6 Hour was an endurance race for Group 3E Series Production Cars and other invited cars. The event, which was staged at the Mount Panorama Circuit, near Bathurst, in New South Wales, Australia, on 16 April 2017, was the second running of the Bathurst 6 Hour. The race was won by Luke Searle and Paul Morris, driving a BMW M135i. Morris became the first driver to win the three major endurance races at Bathurst, having previously won the Bathurst 1000 in 2014 and the Bathurst 12 Hour in 2007 and 2010. This feat was later achieved by Shane van Gisbergen.


2017 High Country Grizzlies season
The 2017 High Country Grizzlies season was the franchise's inaugural season as a professional indoor football franchise; they are an expansion team of the National Arena League. The Grizzlies were one of eight teams that competed in the NAL for its inaugural 2017 season.


2017 High Country Grizzlies season
Led by head coach Josh Resignalo, the Grizzlies play their home games at the George M. Holmes Convocation Center on the campus of Appalachian State University.


2017 High Country Grizzlies season, Schedule, Regular season
The 2017 regular season schedule was released on December 9, 2016


2017 High Country Grizzlies season, Roster
Rookies in italics updated June 16, 201726 Active, 12 Inactive


2017 Highland Council election
The 2017 Highland Council election was held on 4 May 2017 to elect members of the Highland Council. The election used the 21 wards created under the Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004; each ward elected three or four councillors using the single transferable vote system (a form of proportional representation). A total of 74 councillors were elected, six less than in 2012.


2017 Highland Council election
The election was fought in new wards, as the recommendations by the Boundary Commission had been accepted by Scottish Ministers. There were big changes, particularly in Caithness where an entire ward was removed. This election was most notable for returning 10 Conservative councillors: the party's first representation on the council since 1999.


2017 Highland Council election
After the 2012 election an administration had been formed by the Scottish National Party, the Scottish Liberal Democrats and the Scottish Labour Party. This was the first time that the Independents had not had any role in the administration of the Council. However, later in the 2012–17 term, this administration fell and the Independent group instead governed as a minority.


2017 Highland Council election
After the 2017 election, the Independent, Liberal Democrat and Labour groups formed a coalition administration.


2017 Highland Council election, Election result
Note: "Votes" are the first preference votes. The net gain/loss and percentage changes relate to the result of the previous Scottish local elections on 3 May 2012. This may differ from other published sources showing gain/loss relative to seats held at dissolution of Scotland's councils. These are also direct comparisons of seat change, not comparisons to 'notional' results as used in the national results, as such there is a net loss of six seats in the Net gain/loss column.


2017 Highland Council election, Ward results, Thurso and North West Caithness
* = Sitting Councillors for Landward Caithness Ward. + = Sitting Councillors for Thurso Ward.


2017 Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly election
The Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly election, 2017 was held on 9 November 2017 to elect all 68 members of the Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly.


2017 Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly election
The term of the previous Legislative Assembly ended on 7 January 2017. Since 2012, the Indian National Congress Party was in power in the outgoing assembly with 36 seats. The lone opposition party was Bharatiya Janata Party.


2017 Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly election
The Constitution of India states that the term of Legislative Assemblies is five years, at maximum. The term of current Legislative Assembly ends on 7 January 2018. The previous election, held in 2012 resulted in Congress gaining majority of seats and Virbhadra Singh becoming Chief Minister.


2017 Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly election
Himachal Pradesh, as a state of India follows Parliamentary system of government similar to other states. The Government is responsible to the Assembly and stays in power only if it has the support of majority members. Elections take place on a first past the post basis, the candidate with the most votes wins the seat regardless of an absolute majority. Every citizen of the state, who is 18 and above is eligible to vote. The Governor then invites the leader of the largest party or coalition to form the government. As is common in most other first past the post electoral systems, the state's politics are dominated by two parties – the Indian National Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party.


2017 Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly election
State elections in India are often fought on central issues, and the results are regarded as a referendum on the central government's policies. This is especially true in the case of states where the two national parties – Congress and BJP are in direct contest with each other. The state units of the parties are not completely independent and the central authority of the parties has a considerable influence over candidate selection and campaigning. However, state issues do tend to dominate the discourse.


2017 Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly election
The Congress party has projected its current Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh as its Chief Ministerial candidate for the elections. BJP announced Prem Kumar Dhumal as their Chief Ministerial candidate. Dhumal lost his seat from the Sujanpur constituency. Eventually, the BJP made Jai Ram Thakur the Chief Minister who won from the Seraj constituency. In the 17th Assembly segment, Tashigang village becomes the highest polling station at an altitude of 15256 feet. The polling station falls in Buddhist-dominated Lahul-Spiti that form the Mandi Lok Sabha seat, the second-largest constituency in India. Situated at about 29 Kilometres from the India-China border, the polling station covers two villages - Tashigang and Gets. As per the revised electoral roll, the two villages have 48 Voters of which 30 are men and 18 women.


2017 Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly election, Preparations for elections
VVPAT-fitted electronic voting machines were used in all of the 7,521 polling stations, the first time that the entire state will see the implementation of VVPAT to ensure greater transparency to the voter. Over 5 million voters are registered in the state. VVPAT slips were counted in 2 polling stations each across all 68 Himachal Pradesh constituencies.


2017 Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly election, Preparations for elections
India's first voter, Shyam Saran Negi, voted for the 29th time at Kalpa polling station in Kinnaur.


2017 Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly election, Tibetan voters
Indian electoral rules allow any citizen of India above 18 years of age to vote in any states and union territories of India, provided he/she is a resident of that state. India has a large Tibetan diaspora that fled from Tibet along with the Dalai Lama. Dharamshala, a city in Himachal Pradesh, is the capital of the Central Tibetan Administration. The Government has allowed Tibetans born in India between 1950 and 1987 to vote in the elections. This however, does not affect their relationship with the CTA.


2017 Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly election, Candidate list
declared list of 68 candidates on 18 October 2017 which includes 14 first timers with 21 new faces.


2017 Hobart International
The 2017 Hobart International was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 24nd edition of the event and part of the WTA International tournaments of the 2017 WTA Tour. It took place at the Hobart International Tennis Centre in Hobart, Australia from 9 through 15 January 2017.


2017 Hobart International, Points and prize money, Prize money
1 Points per the WTA. 2 Qualifiers prize money is also the Round of 32 prize money* per team


2017 Hobart International, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2017 Hobart International, Doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:


2017 Hobart International – Doubles
Han Xinyun and Christina McHale were the defending champions, but chose not to participate this year.


2017 Hobart International – Doubles
Raluca Olaru and Olga Savchuk won the title, defeating Gabriela Dabrowski and Yang Zhaoxuan in the final, 0–6, 6–4, [10–5].


2017 Hobart International – Singles
Alizé Cornet was the defending champion, but withdrew before the tournament began due to a back injury.


2017 Hobart International – Singles
Elise Mertens won her first WTA singles title, defeating Monica Niculescu in the final, 6–3, 6–1. Mertens had come through the qualifying tournament and thus became only the third qualifier to win the Hobart International, following Mona Barthel in 2012 and Garbiñe Muguruza in 2014.


2017 Hoboken mayoral election
The Hoboken Mayoral Election of 2017 was an election to determine who will hold the office of Mayor of Hoboken, New Jersey in the upcoming term of 2018–2022. The election took place on November 7, 2017. Incumbent Mayor Dawn Zimmer announced that she would not run for a third term on June 20, 2017, hoping to pursue climate change issues higher up in the chain of government, and endorsed City Councilman Ravinder Bhalla. On November 7, Bhalla was elected mayor of Hoboken, with 32.75% of the vote, becoming the first Sikh mayor in New Jersey history, and the first turbaned Sikh  to be elected mayor in the United States.


2017 Hockey East Men's Ice Hockey Tournament
The 2017 Hockey East Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was played between March 3 and March 18, 2017 at campus locations and at the TD Garden in Boston, Massachusetts. The Massachusetts–Lowell River Hawks defeated the Boston College Eagles by a score of 4–3 to earn their 3rd Hockey East championship in school history, the third in five years, and earn Hockey East's automatic bid into the 2017 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament. C. J. Smith was named tournament MVP.


2017 Hockey East Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Format
The tournament included all twelve teams in the conference. Seeds 1–4 earned a first-round bye, and seeds 5–12 played a best-of-three Opening Round played on campus locations. Winners advanced to play the 1–4 seeds in the best-of-three Quarterfinals on campus locations. Winners of those series played in a single-game Semifinal, and those winners faced off in a single-game Championship Final, both at the TD Garden.


2017 Hockey East Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Format, Regular season standings
Note: GP = Games Played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; PTS = Points; GF = Goals For; GA = Goals Against


2017 Hockey India League
The 2017 Hockey India League, known as Coal India Hockey India League for sponsorship reasons, was the fifth season of the Hockey India League. It was held between 21 January and 26 February 2017. Kalinga Lancers beat Dabang Mumbai 4–1 in the final to win their first title. Six teams played 34 matches in six venues with final played in Sector 42 Stadium, Chandigarh. The prize money was announced to be 3 crores INR.


2017 Hockey India League
Punjab Warriors were the defending champions and were eliminated in the round-robin stage. Uttar Pradesh Wizards finished third, beating Delhi Waveriders in the third place playoff. Kalinga Lancers' Glenn Turner and Moritz Fürste finished as the tournament's joint top-scorers with 12 goals each. Dabang Mumbai's Florian Fuchs was named the Player of the Tournament.


2017 Hockey India League, Teams
Six teams competed in the season, the same from last season.


2017 Hockey India League, Format
Six teams were placed in a group to play home-away round robin matches. The top four teams qualified for the knockout stage. This season again featured some rules regarding scoring goals as every field goal was double compared to goals scored from penalty corners, meaning a field goal counted as two while successfully converted short corners were considered one goal. Playing eleven, teams had to have a minimum of two and a maximum of five foreign players.


2017 Hockey India League, Standings
Rules for classification: 1) Points (Win (5) Draw (2) Lost by 3 goals (1) or (0)2) matches won3) goal difference4) goals scored5) head-to-head points, goal difference & goals scored6) shoot‐out competition


2017 Hokkaido Bank Curling Classic
The 2017 Hokkaido Bank Curling Classic was held August 3–6, 2017 in Sapporo, Japan. It was the first men's event and second women's event of the 2017–18 season. The total purse for the event was ¥ 1,700,000.


2017 Hokkaido Bank Curling Classic
In the men's event, Kim Soo-hyuk defeated Yusuke Morozumi 8–7 in an extra end to win the tournament. In the women's event, Satsuki Fujisawa topped Kim Min-ji 7–3 in the final.


2017 Hokkaido Bank Curling Classic, Men, Round robin results
All draw times are listed in Japan Standard Time (UTC+09:00).


2017 Hokkaido Bank Curling Classic, Women, Round robin results
All draw times are listed in Japan Standard Time (UTC+09:00).


2017 Holiday Bowl
The 2017 Holiday Bowl was a postseason college football bowl game, played at SDCCU Stadium in San Diego, California, on December 28, 2017. This was the first time that the Holiday Bowl was played at SDCCU Stadium. Previous to the 2017 season, the Holiday Bowl was played at Qualcomm Stadium. The 40th edition of the Holiday Bowl featured the Michigan State Spartans of the Big Ten Conference versus the Washington State Cougars of the Pac-12 Conference. It was one of the 2017–18 bowl games concluding the 2017 FBS football season. Sponsored by San Diego County Credit Union, the game was officially known as the San Diego County Credit Union Holiday Bowl.


2017 Holiday Bowl, Teams, Michigan State
This was Michigan State's first appearance in a Holiday Bowl. The Spartans finished the 2017 regular season at 9–3, and were second in the B1G East Division (7–2). The team had upset wins over then-#7 Michigan and then-#7 Penn State. Their three losses were all against teams that finished in the AP Top 20 (#14 Notre Dame, #20 Northwestern and #5 Ohio State).


2017 Holiday Bowl, Teams, Washington State
This was Washington State's fourth appearance in the Holiday Bowl, having lost to #14 Brigham Young in 1981, having defeated #5 Texas in 2003, and having lost to Minnesota in 2016. The Cougars finished the 2017 regular season at 9–3, and were third in the Pac-12 North Division (6–3). The season featured wins against then-#5 USC and then-#18 Stanford.


2017 Holland Ladies Tour
The 2017 Boels Rental Ladies Tour also known as the 2017 Holland Ladies Tour is the 20th edition of the Holland Ladies Tour, a women's cycle stage race held in the Netherlands. The tour is part of the 2017 women's road cycling calendar and is part of the UCI Women's World Tour.


2017 Hollywood Casino 400
The 2017 Hollywood Casino 400 is a Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race that was held on October 22, 2017, at Kansas Speedway in Kansas City, Kansas. Contested over 267 laps on the 1.5 mile (2.4 km) intermediate speedway, it was the 32nd race of the 2017 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series season, sixth race of the Playoffs, and final race of the Round of 12. Martin Truex, Jr of Furniture Row Racing, won the race.


2017 Hollywood Casino 400, Report, Background
Kansas Speedway is a 1.5-mile (2.4 km) tri-oval race track in Kansas City, Kansas. It was built in 2001 and it currently hosts two annual NASCAR race weekends. The Verizon IndyCar Series also raced at here until 2011. The speedway is owned and operated by the International Speedway Corporation.


2017 Hollywood Casino 400, First practice
Kyle Larson was the fastest in the first practice session with a time of 28.563 seconds and a speed of 189.056 mph (304.256 km/h).


2017 Hollywood Casino 400, Qualifying
Martin Truex Jr. scored the pole for the race with a time of 28.719 and a speed of 188.029 mph (302.603 km/h).


2017 Hollywood Casino 400, Practice (post-qualifying), Second practice
Kyle Larson was the fastest in the second practice session with a time of 29.724 seconds and a speed of 181.671 mph (292.371 km/h).


2017 Hollywood Casino 400, Practice (post-qualifying), Final practice
Ryan Blaney was the fastest in the final practice session with a time of 29.661 seconds and a speed of 182.057 mph (292.992 km/h).


2017 Hollywood Casino 400, Race, Stage 1, Start
Martin Truex Jr. led the field to the green flag at 3:16 p.m., He led a total of 34 laps, The first caution of the race flew for a competition caution on lap 32.


2017 Hollywood Casino 400, Race, Stage 1, Start
The race restarted on lap 36 following a competition caution at 30 laps, pole-sitter and race leader Martin Truex Jr. was penalized for a restart violation —  going inside the white line — and was sent to the back of the field. It appeared Kevin Harvick who was running second, also dipped inside the line behind Truex but was not penalized because he wasn't in the front row. The second caution of the race flew on lap 48 when Brett Moffitt spun out in turn 2, Kurt Busch won the free pass under caution. Brad Keselowski, Ryan Blaney, Dale Earnhardt Jr., Ryan Newman, Chris Buescher and Truex stayed out while everyone else pitted.


2017 Hollywood Casino 400, Race, Stage 1, Start
The race restarted on lap 52, Kyle Larson who entered the race third in the standings and 29 points ahead of the cutoff line, pulled into pit road with a blown engine on lap 66 and fell to 37th place during the first stage, crippling his chance to advance to the third round. Larson won four races this season, tied for second-most in the series.


2017 Hollywood Casino 400, Race, Stage 1, Start
The third caution of the race flew on lap 78 for fluid on the track, Matt DiBenedetto won the free pass under caution, Kyle Busch, who entered the race ninth in the standings and seven points below the cutoff line to advance to the Round of 8, picked up 10 valuable points by winning the first stage. Busch led 39 laps for his 14th stage win of the season. Contending playoff drivers constituted the top nine finishers in the stage. Behind Busch were Kevin Harvick, Blaney, Matt Kenseth, Denny Hamlin, Jimmie Johnson, Chase Elliott, Jamie McMurray and Martin Truex Jr., Kasey Kahne was 10th.


2017 Hollywood Casino 400, Race, Stage 2
The race restarted on lap 87 and it remained green for 70 laps, The fourth caution of the race flew on 157 when Brett Moffitt again spun in turn 2, Aric Almirola won the free pass under caution.


2017 Hollywood Casino 400, Race, Stage 2
Denny Hamlin, who began the race in fifth place, 21 points ahead of the cutoff line, won the second stage and picked up 10 valuable playoff points. He was followed by Kevin Harvick, Brad Keselowski, Matt Kenseth, Kyle Busch, non-playoff driver Erik Jones, Jamie McMurray, Ryan Blaney, Chase Elliott and Jimmie Johnson. Keselowski, who is already assured of advancing to the Round of 8 after winning at Talladega last week, and Hamlin was penalized for speeding through pit road and sent to the back of the field. The fifth caution of the race flew on lap 162 for the end of stage two.