2017 Palestinian local elections, Participants
The Central Elections Commission published its lists of candidates on 30 August 2016. Out of 416 municipalities and villages councils, only 196 submitted multiple lists. In 38 cases no candidate lists were submitted. In 181  cases a consensus list was submitted, allowing the candidate to win by default while an incomplete list was submitted in one case. The Central Elections Commission received 163 objections to the initial listing of candidates. Seven candidates were disqualified after the commission acted on them.


2017 Palestinian local elections, Participants
PFLP suspended its participation in the elections on 13 March, stating it took the decision in response to the alleged suppression of a peaceful protest in front of the Courts Complex in Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate by Palestinian Security Services on 12 March. On 28 March, Central Election Commission opened the registration for local elections in West Bank set for May 2017. Another electoral list was published on 9 April, with 179 locales submitting only one list, allowing for their automatic victory. No lists were submitted in 56 locales, with elections for them being postponed to a month later. 152 out of 391 locales of West Bank were slated to hold elections on 13 May.


2017 Palestinian local elections, Participants
CEC published the final register of electoral lists and candidates on 29 April. It stated that elections will be held in 145 councils, with 4411 candidates competing for 1561 council seats while 181 localities had submitted only one nominated electoral list containing a total of 1683 candidates, allowing for their win by acclamation on the election day. Decision on formation of councils in 65 localities which had submitted incomplete lists were scheduled to be done through the cabinet.


2017 Palestinian local elections, Results
The elections were held in 326 local bodies with 3,253 seats. 420,682 of 787,386 eligible voters cast their ballots in the election, with voter turnout being recorded as 53.4%. Electoral lists in 181 municipalities won automatically as they were unopposed. Polls were held in 145 municipalities with 1,552 council seats. 1.3% of votes were cast as white ballots while 2.75% were declared as "null".


2017 Palestinian local elections, Results
Tayseer Abu Sneineh, who had been convicted for the 1980 Hebron terrorist attack in which six Jews were murdered and had been chosen to head Fatah's list in Hebron, obtained a mandate to lead the city's municipal council as mayor. Likud minister Ayoub Kara denounced his election tweeting that a terrorist was  "elected mayor of Hebron is a clear message from the Palestinians [in favor] of terrorist attacks against Israel." He also called upon Palestinian Authority's President Mahmoud Abbas to annul the elections.


2017 Pan Am Badminton Championships
The XXI 2017 Pan Am Badminton Championships were held as two events in different counties. From 16 to 19 February, the team event was held in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. From 27 to 30 April, the individual event was held in Havana, Cuba.


2017 Pan Am Badminton Championships, Medalists
In the team event, Canada national badminton team won the gold medal after beating Brazil national badminton team with the score 3-0 in the men's singles, women's singles and men's doubles events.


2017 Pan American Acrobatic Gymnastics Championships
The 2nd Pan American Acrobatic Gymnastics Championships were held in Daytona Beach, United States, from October 13 to 15, 2017. The competition was organized by USA Gymnastics, and approved by the International Gymnastics Federation.


2017 Pan American Aerobic Gymnastics Championships
The 2017 Pan American Aerobic Gymnastics Championships were held in Bogotá, Colombia, October 27–29, 2017. The competition was organized by the Colombian Gymnastics Federation, and approved by the International Gymnastics Federation.


2017 Pan American Fencing Championships
The 2017 Pan American Fencing Championships is held at the Centre Pierre-Charbonneau in Montreal from 13 to 18 June 2017. The event was organized by the Pan American Fencing Confederation and Canadian Fencing Federation.


2017 Pan American Ice Hockey Tournament
The 2017 Pan American Ice Hockey Tournament was the fourth edition of the Pan American Ice Hockey Tournament, an annual event run by the Federación Deportiva de México de Hockey sobre Hielo, sanctioned by the International Ice Hockey Federation. It will take place in Mexico City, Mexico between June 5 and 11, 2017. Mexico "A" won their first ever Pan American Tournament, winning all six of its games and defeating Colombia (Yellow) in the final. Argentina "A" finished third after defeating Mexico "B" in the bronze medal game.


2017 Pan American Ice Hockey Tournament, Participants
The following nine teams in three groups will compete in the tournament, with Argentina, Brazil, Colombia and Mexico bringing both "A" and "B" teams.


2017 Pan American Individual Event Artistic Gymnastics Championships
The 2017 Pan American Individual Event Artistic Gymnastics Championships was held in Lima, Peru, August 10–12, 2017. The competition was organized by the Peruvian Gymnastics Federation and approved by the International Gymnastics Federation.


2017 Pan American Judo Championships
The 2017 Pan American Judo Championships was held in Panama City, Panama from 28 to 29 April 2017.


2017 Pan American Men's Club Handball Championship
The 2017 Pan American Men's Club Handball Championship the X edition of this tournament took place in Villa Ballester, Buenos Aires, Argentina from 24 to 28 May 2017. It acts as a qualifying tournament for the 2017 IHF Super Globe.


2017 Pan American Men's Junior Handball Championship
The 2017 Pan American Men's Junior Handball Championship the XII edition of this tournament took place in Asunción, Paraguay from 20 to 25 March 2017. It acts as a qualifying tournament for the 2017 Men's Junior World Handball Championship.


2017 Pan American Men's Youth Handball Championship
The 2017 Pan American Men's Youth Handball Championship the XIII edition of this tournament took place in Santiago, Chile from 15 to 22 April 2017. It acts as a qualifying tournament for the 2017 Men's Youth World Handball Championship.


2017 Pan American Men's Youth Handball Championship, Referees
Following six referee pairs were selected by the Pan-American Team Handball Federation for the championship:


2017 Pan American Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships
The 2017 Pan American Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships were held in Daytona Beach, United States, October 13–15, 2017. The competition was organized by USA Gymnastics, and approved by the International Gymnastics Federation.


2017 Pan American Road Cycling Championships
The 2017 Pan American Road Cycling Championships took place at Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, May 4–7, 2017. This was the 32nd edition of the continental championship. The event gave berths for the 2018 Central American and Caribbean Games.


2017 Pan American Table Tennis Championships
The 2017 Pan American Table Tennis Championships is the first edition of the championships, and were held in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia from September 11 to September 17, 2017.


2017 Pan American Track Cycling Championships
The 2017 Pan American Track Cycling Championships took place at the National Cycling Centre, in Couva, Trinidad & Tobago,  from 30 August to 3 September 2017. The event served as a qualifier for the 2018 Central American and Caribbean Games and the United States won the event.


2017 Pan American U20 Athletics Championships
The 2017 Pan American U20 Athletics Championships was the nineteenth edition of the biennial track and field competition for under-20 athletes from the Americas, organised by the Association of Panamerican Athletics. It was held in Trujillo, Peru, at the Mansiche Sports Complex from 21 to 23 July. The United States topped the medal table with 54 medals total including 22 gold.


2017 Pan American Weightlifting Championships
The 2017 Pan American Weightlifting Championships is holding in Miami, United States between July 23 and July 30, 2017.


2017 Pan American Weightlifting Championships
A total of 126 weightlifters qualified to compete at the 2019 Pan American Games through scores from both the 2017 and 2018 Pan American Championships combined. A nation may enter a maximum of 12 weightlifters (six per gender). The host nation (Peru) automatically qualified the maximum team size.


2017 Pan American Weightlifting Championships, Medal summary, Men
Fernando Reis participated as an extra athlete and his results did not count for the competition. He lifted 198 kg in Snatch for a Pan American record. He also lifted 225 kg for Clean & Jerk and a Total of 423 kg


2017 Pan American Women's Club Handball Championship
The 2017 Pan American Women's Club Handball Championship will be the second edition of the tournament organised by the Pan-American Team Handball Federation, and will be held in Asuncion, Paraguay 23–28 October.


2017 Pan American Women's Handball Championship
The 2017 Pan American Women's Handball Championship was the 14th edition of the Pan American Women's Handball Championship, held in at the Sociedad Alemana de Gimnasia de Villa Ballester, in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina from 18 to 25 June 2017. It acted as American qualifying tournament for the 2017 World Women's Handball Championship. The event was originally set to be held in Toronto, Canada but the Canadian Handball Federation withdrew, citing lack of funds.


2017 Pan American Women's Handball Championship, Preliminary round
The schedule was announced on 16 May 2017, with the exact throw-off times being published on 2 June 2017.


2017 Pan American Wrestling Championships
The 2017 Pan American Wrestling Championships was held in Lauro de Freitas, Brazil, from 5 to 7 May 2017.


2017 Panda Cup
The 2017 Panda Cup was the fourth edition of Panda Cup, an under-19 association football competition.


2017 Panda Cup
The tournament was hosted in Chengdu between 17 and 21 May. Players born on or after 1 January 1999 are eligible to compete in the tournament.


2017 Panjgur landmine blast
On 29 July 2017, a bombing took place in Panjgur District, Balochistan, Pakistan near Iran–Pakistan border. Four people were killed while five others were injured. Security forces rushed to the site of attack. The nature of the explosion is still unclear. No group have claimed responsibility of the attack. It is reported that Iranian border guards started firing after bombing which delayed rescue services. CM Punjab condemned the attack.


2017 Papua New Guinea National Soccer League
The 2017 Papua New Guinea National Soccer League season was the 11th edition of the Papua New Guinea National Soccer League.


2017 Papua New Guinea National Soccer League
The title was won by Lae City Dwellers, who were awarded the title by virtue of their superior regular season record, after the Papua New Guinea Football Association cancelled the playoffs and the Grand Final.


2017 Papua New Guinea National Soccer League, Teams
The season was the first after the league split, which saw 11 out of the 18 regional football associations breakaway from the league and form their own association. As such, membership of the league shrank from 12 to 6 teams, with only four – champions Lae City Dwellers, Madang FC, Besta PNG United and PS Huawei – returning from the previous season, alongside two debutants, Buang FC and Vitis Yamaros, who replaced Southern Strikers, who were due to take part but withdrew shortly after they failed to turn up for their opening fixture.


2017 Papua New Guinea National Soccer League, Format
Reverting to the structure employed from 2006–2014, six teams played in the league, and during the regular season, teams played home and away, and the team at the top of the league after all matches were played was crowned 'Minor Premiers'. The top two secured qualification for the 2018 OFC Champions League. At the end of the regular season, the top four teams advanced to a knockout competition, the winners of which were crowned Champions.


2017 Papua New Guinea National Soccer League, Summary
The season was deferred several times thanks to the difficulties involving the league split, initially from February to 29 April 2017 to allow for Lae City Dwellers' and Madang FC's participation in the 2017 OFC Champions League and for the national team's FIFA World Cup qualification campaign. This was further pushed back into May due to funding issues, and finally kicked off on 6 May 2017.


2017 Papua New Guinea National Soccer League, Summary
On the opening day, Southern Strikers failed to show up and eventually withdrew from the competition, eventually being replaced by Vitis Yamaros. Lae City Dwellers and Madang FC played out a 1–1 draw, which allowed PS Huawei to take an early lead at the top of the table with a 2–1 win over Besta PNG United. Huawei held this lead through the second week with a 1–0 win over Madang, before dropping to second on goal difference behind Lae City after a 1–1 draw with Buang FC.


2017 Papua New Guinea National Soccer League, Summary
Lae would go on to win all their remaining matches and concede just eight goals, but they didn't go clear at the top until matchday five, when they defeated PS Huawei 4–1, in part thanks to a brace from Raymond Gunemba. This defeat was a catalyst for PS Huawei, who lost their next two matches against Besta PNG United and Madang FC, allowing the latter to overtake them into second. The race for second would not be resolved until the final day, with both Madang and Huawei going into their final fixtures on 16 points. Huawei lost narrowly 2–3 against Minor Premiers Lae City Dwellers while Magang secured a 2–1 win against Vitis Yamaros to secure second place and a spot at the 2018 OFC Champions League.


2017 Papua New Guinea National Soccer League, Summary
At the bottom, Buang FC and Vitis Yamaros were due to play their final game – which would have been played on the opening day – on 22 July 2017, a week after the final regular season matches, but a week before the playoffs. However, both teams forfeited, and were each awarded a 0–3 defeat against them.


2017 Papua New Guinea National Soccer League, Summary
In the playoffs, Lae City Dwellers reached the final after a 2–1 victory over Besta PNG United, but the match between Madang FC and PS Huawei was deferred several times before Huawei eventually withdrew, citing poor management of the competition. The final was cancelled shortly afterwards, with the PNGFA blaming 'the rainy season in Lae, the national elections and the failure of some clubs to pay their fees in full'. Lae City Dwellers were awarded the title by virtue of their superior regular season record.


2017 Papua New Guinea National Soccer League, Playoffs
The NSL cancelled the final following the withdrawal of PS United, due to clubs failing to have paid fees in full.


2017 Papua New Guinea earthquake
The 2017 Papua New Guinea earthquake was an Mww 7.9 earthquake that struck at 04:30 UTC on 22 January 2017. Three people were killed during the quake and one was injured. Damage occurred in Arawa and parts of central Bougainville, while a power outage occurred in Buka.


2017 Papua New Guinean general election
General elections were held in Papua New Guinea between 24 June and 8 July 2017.


2017 Papua New Guinean general election
The writs for the election were issued on 20 April, and candidate nominations closed on 27 April.


2017 Papua New Guinean general election
Sir Michael Somare, the first Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea, retired as a Member of National Parliament at the election. Somare has served continuously since he was first elected to the pre-independence House of Assembly in 1968, an unbroken term of 49 years.


2017 Papua New Guinean general election
On 1 August 2017 Peter O'Neill was re-elected as Prime Minister by Parliament by a vote of 64–40.


2017 Papua New Guinean general election, Electoral system
The 111 members of the National Parliament are elected from single-member constituencies by preferential voting; voters are given three preferences, with a candidate declared elected once they receive over 50% of preference votes.


2017 Papua New Guinean general election, Election, Schedule
The Return of Writs was postponed to 29 July due to few of the 111 seats being declared. The Writs were presented to Governor General Sir Robert Dadae on 29 July by Electoral Commissioner Patilias Gamato, with only 80 seats declared.


2017 Papua New Guinean general election, Election, Candidates
The Papua New Guinea Electoral Commission reported in preliminary figures that 3332 candidates have nominated to contest the election, 165 candidates of whom are women.


2017 Papua New Guinean general election, Campaigning
There has reportedly been less activity in the 2017 election compared to previous elections, with PNG National Party Leader Kerenga Kua saying "There is less colour, less movement, and that's not good, because you need to have some level of activity for educational purposes". Four people died in clashes regarding the election, with several candidates attacked during campaigning or nominations, to which Electoral Comisisoner Patilias Gamato said "We have not gone into polls yet but already people are engaging in violent activities, threats and intimidation — that's unnecessary."


2017 Papua New Guinean general election, Campaigning
Ezekiel Anisi, MP for Ambunti-Dreikikir Open died suddenly on 24 May 2017 at a Port Moresby guesthouse in the midst of his re-election campaign.


2017 Papua New Guinean general election, Campaigning, Concerns
The Bank of Papua New Guinea is concerned that 160 Million Kina of old currency which was stolen has the potential to influence the election. There are concerns in the Menyama District of Morobe Province that poor weather conditions affecting road transport could cause issues with the transportation of polling materials closer towards the election.


2017 Papua New Guinean general election, Campaigning, Concerns
Significant issues with voting had arisen by late June. On 27 June, the day voting was due to begin in the National Capital District, voting in all three electorates there was delayed until 30 June after polling officials went on strike due to unpaid allowances. At least sixteen electoral officials were arrested, including NCD election manager Terrence Hetinu, who was found with US$57,000 in cash stored in his car, while NCD assistant returning officer Roselyn Tobogani was arrested after officials were found smuggling ballot papers out of the provincial election office.


2017 Papua New Guinean general election, Campaigning, Concerns
Voting in Chimbu Province, Hela Province and Western Highlands Province failed to begin on schedule on 26 June due to issues with the common roll and disputes over numbers of ballot papers, while voting in Eastern Highlands Province only commenced on a limited basis amidst reports that "thousands of students" had been left off the electoral roll.


2017 Papua New Guinean general election, Campaigning, Concerns
Electoral Commissioner Patilias Gamato obtained a court order against blogger Martyn Namorong, restricting him from sharing defamatory statements against the commissioner. This came after Gamato received criticism which compared him and his surname to a tomato.


2017 Papua New Guinean general election, Results
No women were elected, making Papua New Guinea one of only three or four countries in the world (as of 1 February 2019) to have no women in the legislature.


2017 Paradise Jam Tournament
The 2017 Paradise Jam Tournament were men's and women's preseason college basketball tournaments that took place at three locations in the contiguous United States. The tournaments are normally held at Saint Thomas, Virgin Islands at the Sports and Fitness Center on the campus of the University of the Virgin Islands. However, due to major damage to the Virgin Islands from Hurricanes Irma and Maria, the events were moved to the U.S. mainland. Tournament organizers solicited hosting bids from all schools in the men's and women's tournaments, with each tournament originally intended to be awarded to one of its participating schools.


2017 Paradise Jam Tournament
The substitute host for the men's tournament was announced on September 29 as Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia, with Vines Center as the venue. On October 4, two substitute sites for the women's event, which is organized as two separate four-team tournaments, were announced. The Reef division will be held at the Charles E. Smith Center at George Washington University in Washington, D.C., while the Island division will be held in Melbourne, Florida at the neutral Titan Field House at Eastern Florida State College.


2017 Paradise Jam Tournament
The men's tournament will be played November 17–20, 2017 with the women's tournament to be held November 23–25.


2017 Paradise Jam Tournament, Women's Tournament
The women's tournament will be played from November 23–25. The women's tournament consists of 8 teams split into two 4-team, round-robin divisions: Island and Reef.


2017 Paradise Jam Tournament, Women's Tournament, Island Division
On 23 November, West Virginia took on Butler in the opening day of the Island Division of the Paradise Jam. The Mountaineers started out strong scoring 10 points before Butler scored, and held a 16–7 lead at the end of the first quarter. West Virginia's Naomi Davenport Recorded a double double with 12 points and 11 rebounds by halftime. Butler didn't back down and cut the nine point lead to five by halftime.


2017 Paradise Jam Tournament, Women's Tournament, Island Division
In the second half Butler took a one point lead with just over two minutes to go, but West Virginia responded with consecutive three-pointers by Teanna Muldrow and Chania Ray. Butler was forced to foul and Muldrow sealed the win making for consecutive free throws. West Virginia ended up with the win 75–68.


2017 Paradise Jam Tournament, Women's Tournament, Island Division
On that same day, in the other Island Division game, Virginia Tech took on Drexel. Virginia Tech outscored Drexel in each of the first two quarters, and went to halftime with an 11 point lead 40–29. However the Dragons fought back And took a lead with a score 46–45. The team's exchanged baskets and the lead changed, but Taylor Emery hit a three point jumper to break a 49–49 tie. The hoagies lead at the end of the third quarter but Drexel came back with back to back baskets to take one point lead at 60–59. Virginia Tech took the lead back and never gave it up, ending up with a 79–67 win. Each team had four players with double digit scoring, but Virginia's Tech's Emery had 25 to lead all scorers and help secure the win.


2017 Paradise Jam Tournament, Women's Tournament, Island Division
On the second day of the tournament, West Virginia took on Drexel. Game was never close with the Mountaineers opening up a seven point lead in the first quarter, extending it to an 18 point lead at halftime, and further extending the lead in the third and fourth quarters. West Virginia hit 56% of the field-goal attempts including six of their 83 point attempts. West Virginia's Teana Muldrow scored 25. The Mountaineers held Drexel to 30% shooting from the field and forcing 24 turnovers. The final score was 75–42.


2017 Paradise Jam Tournament, Women's Tournament, Island Division
The other Island Division game was a much closer match-up. Butler led much of the first half but Virginia Tech came back to tie up the score 37 points apiece at halftime. Butler outscored Virginia Tech by only a single point in the third quarter and another single point in the fourth quarter two and the game with a narrow two point margin 79–77. Emery scored 20 points for Virginia Tech, but Butler got 27 points from Schickel as well as 20 points off the bench from Spolyar.


2017 Paradise Jam Tournament, Women's Tournament, Island Division
West Virginia faced Virginia Tech on the final day of the tournament in the Island Division. All five starters for West Virginia scored in double figures. The team never trailed and ended up with a 79–61 win over the Hokies, which earned them the tournament title for the Island Division West Virginia's Chania Ray hit five three-pointers helping her earn a spot on the all tournament team, while Teana Muldrow had 23 points along with 11 rebounds which helped her earn MVP honors for the division. Virginia Tech's Regan Magarity was high scorer for the Hokies with 18 points.


2017 Paradise Jam Tournament, Women's Tournament, Island Division
Drexel took on Butler in the other concluding game in the Island Division. Although Butler's Whitney Jennings scored 28 points for the Bulldogs, Drexel got double-digit scoring from four of their five starters, opening up an eight point lead at the half and extending it in the second half to end up with the win 76–62.


2017 Paradise Jam Tournament, Women's Tournament, Reef Division
The opening day game between Syracuse and Wisconsin in the Reef Division was a nailbiter. These two teams had never played against each other before. The game had 11 lead changes and neither team ever mounted a large lead. Syracuse had a three-point lead near the end of the game when Wisconsin's Suzanne Gilreath attempted a three-point shot with two seconds left which would have sent the game to overtime. The shot did not go in and Syracuse won the game 77–74.


2017 Paradise Jam Tournament, Women's Tournament, Reef Division
George Washington and Vanderbilt squared off in the other Reef Division opening day matchup. It was an unexpected home game for George Washington as the hurricane damage had forced the relocation from St. Thomas to US-based locations, but the colonials were unable to take advantage of  playing on their home court. The game was close into the second quarter, with Vanderbilt holding only a one point margin, when the Commodores held colonial scoreless for the last four minutes of quarter while scoring nine points of their own to open up a 10 point halftime lead. Vanderbilt maintained then expanded their lead in the second half to almost 20 points. George Washington narrowed the lead near the end of the game but could get it no closer than the final margin of 10 points 69–59.


2017 Paradise Jam Tournament, Women's Tournament, Reef Division
George Washington faced Wisconsin on the second day. The colonials were up by a single point at the end of the first quarter but turned up their defense and held the Badgers to a single basket in the second quarter, outscoring them 15–3. Wisconsin cut into the lead in the second half closing to within seven points, but the Colonials clamped down on defense and increases the lead, ending with a 61–46 win.


2017 Paradise Jam Tournament, Women's Tournament, Reef Division
Syracuse took on Vanderbilt in a game that was much closer than the final score indicated. In the first half the scoring margin never exceeded four points, and the half ended with Vanderbilt up by a single point. Both extended the lead to six in the second half but then Syracuse came back and opened up as much as a nine point lead. Vanderbilt came back within one, fell behind again, but then retook the lead 76–75 with under two minutes left in the game.


2017 Paradise Jam Tournament, Women's Tournament, Reef Division
Tiana Mangakahia hit a layup to give Syracuse a one point lead that started a 7–2 run to close out the game with an 84–78 victory. Mangakahia recorded 17 assists to set a single game record for the program. The win gave Syracuse a 5–0 start to the season, their first perfect start in four years.


2017 Paradise Jam Tournament, Women's Tournament, Reef Division
Wisconsin took on Vanderbilt in the final game of the Reef Division. The game was extremely close throughout the contest, with Wisconsin holding a three-point lead with about two and half minutes to go in regulation. Vanderbilt scored three points to tie the game at 69 points apiece with a 1:22 left to go. Neither team was able to score so the game went to overtime. The overtime. With scoreless for almost 3 minutes when Vanderbilt took a two point lead. Wisconsin respond to tie it up and then hit the go-ahead layup with just over a minute to go. Vanderbilt had two late shots to tie the game but they failed to go in so Wisconsin ended up with the overtime win 73–71.


2017 Paradise Jam Tournament, Women's Tournament, Reef Division
In the other final game of the Reef Division, Syracuse faced George Washington. Syracuse open strong scoring the first 15 points of the game. Although the Colonials would outscore the Orange from that point on they were unable to climb out of the hole and Syracuse ended up with the win 74–62, giving the Syracuse the tournament crown for the Reef Division.


2017 Paraguayan Primera División season
The 2017 División Profesional season (officially the 2017 Copa TIGO-Visión Banco for sponsorship reasons) was the 83rd season of top-flight professional football in Paraguay.


2017 Paraguayan Primera División season, Teams, Stadia and locations
a: Played its Torneo Apertura home games at Estadio Defensores del Chaco due to remodeling works at Estadio General Pablo Rojas.


2017 Paraguayan Primera División season, Torneo Apertura
The Campeonato de Apertura, also the Copa TIGO-Visión Banco for sponsorship reasons, was the 115th official championship of the Primera División, called "Mario Agustín Sapriza Nunes", and the first championship of the 2017 season. It began on February 3 and ended on June 24.


2017 Paraguayan Primera División season, Torneo Clausura
The Campeonato de Clausura, also the Copa TIGO-Visión Banco for sponsorship reasons, was the 116th official championship of the Primera División, called "Centenario del Club General Díaz - Dr. Hassel Aguilar Sosa", and the second championship of the 2017 season. It began on July 21 and ended on December 10.


2017 Paraguayan Primera División season, Relegation
Relegation is determined at the end of the season by computing an average of the number of points earned per game over the past three seasons. The two teams with the lowest average were relegated to the División Intermedia for the following season.


2017 Paraguayan Primera División season, Relegation, Relegation playoff decider
Since Independiente CG and Rubio Ñu ended with the same average, a match on neutral ground between both teams was played to determine the second relegated team. The loser was relegated to the División Intermedia.


2017 Paraguayan crisis
On 31 March 2017, a series of protests began in Paraguay, during which demonstrators set fire to the Congress building. The demonstrations occurred in response to a constitutional amendment that would permit President Horacio Cartes to run for re-election, a move described by the opposition as "a coup". One protester was killed in Paraguay's capital, Asunción, after being hit by a shotgun blast by police. Several protesters, politicians and journalists, as well as police, were reported injured, including one lower-house deputy who had to undergo surgery after being injured by rubber bullets. On 17 April, President Cartes announced that he was resigning from any possible candidacy for a second presidential term. On 26 April, the Chamber of Deputies of Paraguay rejected the proposed constitutional amendment for presidential re-election.


2017 Paraguayan crisis, Background
The 1992 Constitution limits the President of Paraguay to a single five-year term in office with no possibility of re-election, even if it is nonsuccessive. The proposed amendment would have allowed those previously elected as president to run again for re-election. A previous vote on the measure was rejected in August 2016. The norms of the Congress established that the subject could not be treated again until after a year. However, in the last week of March, the ruling legislators managed to amend the regulations and bring the initiative to the Senate for approval. The proposed constitutional amendment would have allowed presidents and vice presidents to run for a second term, either continuously or alternately. This amendment would have allowed then-president Horacio Cartes and former president Fernando Lugo to run for a second five-year term.


2017 Paraguayan crisis, Background
In order for the amendment to be ratified, it needed to pass in the lower house, on paper a likely outcome in a chamber where the Colorado Party controlled 44 of 80 seats. This would then be followed by a national referendum. Senate President Roberto Acevedo of the opposition Authentic Radical Liberal Party filed an appeal with the Supreme Court, arguing that the vote violated Senate rules.


2017 Paraguayan crisis, Background
The ban on any sort of re-election for the president dates to the aftermath of the military dictatorship of Alfredo Stroessner, which extended between 1954 and 1989. The Stroessner administration, of the Colorado Party, was one of the longest and most repressive in Latin American history. His rule left more than 400 missing, more than 18,000 tortured and more than 20,000 exiles, according to data published in 2008 by the Paraguayan Truth and Justice Commission.


2017 Paraguayan crisis, Background
However, following Stroessner's fall and exile, the Colorado Party continued to win elections and completed over six consecutive decades in power, until in 2008, center-left Fernando Lugo, of the Guasu Front, won the elections. Lugo was dismissed after an impeachment in 2012, and in 2013, the Colorado Party returned to the government with Cartes.


2017 Paraguayan crisis, Background
On 28 March, a discussion in the Congress ended with shouts in the corridors of the Legislative Palace of Asunción between left-wing senators and conservatives of the Colorado Party that were divided into two factions: government officials, who support the re-election of Cartes, and dissidents, who reject it. The Congress by then had been completely surrounded by policemen: truck-based water cannons and hundreds of anti-riot troops prevented the passage of the people. Hundreds of Paraguayans, including dissident deputies, senators and Paraguayan political leaders, demonstrated until the early hours of the morning of 29 March 2017 in downtown Asunción against the approval of the presidential re-election project.


2017 Paraguayan crisis, Background
A closed-session Senate vote on the amendment was scheduled for 31 March 2017. This also coincided with a meeting of the Inter-American Development Bank in Asunción, which brought thousands of foreign business people and government officials to the Paraguayan capital. The measure by senators for the governing Colorado Party, which needed 23 members' support to pass in the 45-member assembly, passed with 25 votes.


2017 Paraguayan crisis, Protests
After the Senate vote, protests broke out in Asunción against the legislation. Desirée Masi, leader of the opposition Progressive Democratic Party stated, "A coup has been carried out. We will resist and we invite the people to resist with us." During the protests, the windows were broken and Congress was set on fire by protesters. Fencing surrounding the compound was also removed. Police used water cannons, tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse the demonstrators.


2017 Paraguayan crisis, Protests
Twenty-five-year-old Rodrigo Quintana, leader of Liberal Youth, the young wing of the main opposition Authentic Radical Liberal Party (PLRA) in the district of La Colmena, Paraguarí Department, died after being seriously wounded with a shotgun blast on the torso by a police officer after police stormed the PLRA headquarters. The President of the Liberal Party Efraín Alegre confirmed the death. The moment of the police irruption to the party's headquarters was captured in a closed-circuit video.


2017 Paraguayan crisis, Protests
As in Asunción, in the early hours of 1 April 2017, Ciudad del Este was the scene of police repression against anti-amendment protesters who congregated at the head of the Friendship Bridge. At least 12 people were detained. About 1:00 a.m., mounted police and special operations agents began the clearance of the border crossing, firing at protesters. The shootings lasted for about an hour, leaving many wounded with rubber bullets. The citizens rushed to the shopping centers, trying to take refuge from the shots, and some were taken from those places to be apprehended. Among the injured was a photographer of a local newspaper.


2017 Paraguayan crisis, Protests
In the early hours of 1 April 2017, members of the mounted group of the National Police of Paraguay attacked the headquarters of the ABC Color newspaper with both rubber and live ammunition. The main door of the newspaper's headquarters was destroyed by a rubber bullet shot and the glass shards wounded two employees.


2017 Paraguayan crisis, Reactions, Domestic
Former President of Paraguay Federico Franco blamed Cartes for the political crisis in the country. Franco, who took office in 2012 after the removal of Lugo following Lugo's impeachment and was himself succeeded by Cartes, said that the president "has to withdraw this amendment immediately" to lower the tension in the country and aspire to continue in his position. Franco also held Cartes responsible for the death of Quintana.


2017 Paraguayan crisis, Reactions, Domestic
The Governor of the Presidente Hayes Department Antonio Saldívar condemned and lamented "the terrible act of the security organisms" that killed Quintana. He also urged the authorities to seek solutions in accordance with the law.


2017 Paraguayan crisis, Reactions, Domestic
The Intendant of Asunción, Mario Ferreiro, requested that the constitutional amendment be withdrawn from the congress.


2017 Paraguayan crisis, Reactions, Domestic
The Bishop of Caacupé, Monsignor Claudio Giménez, blamed the three powers of the Paraguayan state of political crisis, expressing his concern about the situation of the country as a result of the political crisis and regretted that "the lust for power and incoherence could overcome." In the Sunday mass in the Catholic church of the city of Acahay, the pastor Elamidio Sandoval questioned the last events registered in the country because of the "ambition" of re-electionists. Sandoval asked those responsible "to change course and stop generating robberies and deaths and to act with patriotism."


2017 Paraguayan crisis, Reactions, Domestic
The Paraguayan Evangelical community issued a statement condemning the violent acts that took place. They also rejected conduct that violates the national Constitution.


2017 Paraguayan crisis, Reactions, Domestic
Conversely, President Cartes released a statement on Twitter, in response to the protests: "Democracy is not conquered or defended with violence and you can be sure this government will continue to put its best effort into maintaining order in the republic. We must not allow a few barbarians to destroy the peace, tranquility and general wellbeing of the Paraguayan people." He accused the media and a "political group" of the excesses that occurred in the vicinities and within the Congress of Paraguay.


2017 Paraguayan crisis, Reactions, Domestic
Colorado Party President Pedro Alliana called the party's Executive Committee to a meeting for an "analysis of events that occurred on 31 March in the National Congress." The objective was to address what happened in Asunción after the confrontation between demonstrators and police officers, in addition to the subsequent death of Quintana. Much like President Cartes, the Colorado Party blamed opposition politicians and the media for the protests in the Congress, the subsequent acts of violence, and the death of Quintana.


2017 Paraguayan crisis, Reactions, Domestic
Alliana read a statement that mentions that they mourn the death of a young Paraguayan, and demand the clarification of the facts and punishment of those responsible. The statement also expresses its support for Horacio Cartes and his government. After reading the statement, Aliana said that the Colorado Party would continue with its plan to approve the constitutional amendment. Colorado Party Senator and former president of the Colorado Party Lilian Samaniego also stated that the Colorado Party would continue with its plan to approve the constitutional amendment.


2017 Paraguayan crisis, Reactions, Domestic
Paraguayan Foreign Minister Eladio Loizaga said that "democracy is firmer than ever" despite the attack on Congress in Asunción and defended the legality of the constitutional amendment and indicated that it was a violent group that does not understand that it is democracy that caused the events that caused the fire of the congress. These statements were made in Buenos Aires at a Mercosur meeting.


2017 Paraguayan crisis, Reactions, Domestic
Former President of Paraguay and Senator Fernando Lugo issued a statement via YouTube where he criticized the events in Congress, appealed for peace and made a nod to the referendum. In the video he did not touch the subject of the homicide of Quintana.


2017 Paraguayan crisis, Aftermath
Paraguay's Interior Ministry took upon the investigation of Quintana's death. Gustavo Florentín, Deputy Chief of the anti-riot force of the National Police of Paraguay, confessed to accidentally shooting Quintana. In his defense, he claimed that the shotgun was accidentally fired in a struggle. Paraguay's Interior Minister Tadeo Rojas stated that "[his] position is available to the President of the Republic." On 1 April, President Cartes dismissed Interior Minister Rojas and Commander of the National Police Críspulo Sotelo after the death of Quintana. Lorenzo Lezcano was confirmed as the new Interior Minister, while Police Chief Luis Carlos Rojas was appointed as the new Commander of the National Police.


2017 Paraguayan crisis, Aftermath
The Authentic Radical Liberal Party announced the filing of an impeachment petition against President Cartes after the incidents in the mobilization as a result of the approval of the constitutional amendment, blaming him and the senators who approved the proposed constitutional amendment of the events that took place at the Congress of Paraguay. The impeachment request will be presented by the Liberal legislators in the Chamber of Deputies.


2017 Paraguayan crisis, Aftermath
The lower house vote on the constitutional amendment set for 1 April was postponed due to the violence on the protests. The Senate and the Chamber of Deputies ruled to suspend activities due to danger of collapse of the Congress building. The Paraguayan congress did not work again until 5 April 2017.


2017 Paraguayan crisis, Aftermath
A total of 211 people were arrested after the protests against the constitutional amendment of presidential re-election, of which 90 were released after giving a statement before a competent authority.


2017 Paraguayan crisis, Aftermath
A large crowd reunited at the funeral of Quintana on 2 April 2017. After the wake in the party headquarters, the coffin was transferred to his hometown, La Colmena, where he was buried. In a press conference, the Liberal authorities announced that they would not rest until justice is done.


2017 Paraguayan crisis, Aftermath
In social networking services, it was launched a campaign called "#NO", which rejects the constitutional amendment and re-election. Users criticize the acting of the political class and what they considered violations of existing laws as well as constitutional principles.


2017 Paraguayan crisis, Aftermath
President Cartes called in a televised message to a dialogue table between the presidents of the political parties "with parliamentary representation" of the two Chambers of Congress, as well as representatives of the Executive and the High Hierarchy of the Paraguayan Catholic Church to discuss the situation and seek a solution to the political crisis. The Paraguayan opposition, led by the PLRA, said that the conditions for a dialogue with the ruling party are not provided, unless specific points are fulfilled.


2017 Paraguayan crisis, Aftermath
On 3 April 2017, hundreds of protesters demonstrated in the Plaza de Armas near the Paraguayan Congress, demanding the withdrawal of the constitutional amendment proposed by the Colorado Party, while also denouncing the violence that occurred on 31 March. They also collected signatures for a petition calling for the annulment of the constitutional amendment request. Students gathered in the Plaza de las Américas of Asunción to march to Mburuvicha Róga, the official residence of the President of Paraguay. The objective was truncated by police as the place is of restricted access.


2017 Paraguayan crisis, Aftermath
On 5 April, a student assembly took place in Itacurubí del Rosario, San Pedro Department, where, despite heavy rain, they expressed their rejection of the proposed constitutional amendment promoted by Cartes' supporters. On 7 April, secondary students from various institutions in another city of San Pedro, San Estanislao, also concentrated in Mariscal López Park to repudiate the constitutional amendment.


2017 Paraguayan crisis, Aftermath
A group of citizens placed a plaque in one of the pillars of a new "super viaduct" located between the avenues Madame Lynch and Aviadores del Chaco in Asunción to "name" it in honor of Quintana. The "super viaduct" was inaugurated on 31 March, at the same time that the protests in front of the Congress took place.


2017 Paraguayan crisis, Aftermath
Hundreds of Paraguayan citizens took to the streets of several cities in the interior of the country simultaneously to raise their voice of protest against the constitutional amendment that plans to implement the presidential reelection. Members of the Authentic Radical Liberal Party (PLRA) demonstrated peacefully by closing roads en route to Yasy Cañy, Canindeyú Department.


2017 Paraguayan crisis, Aftermath
Paraguayan singer Andrea Valobra decided not to act in front of President Cartes as part of the Assembly of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) that is being held in Asunción. Through a statement on social media, the singer said she could not ignore what happened in the country.


2017 Paraguayan crisis, Aftermath
The Club Olimpia association football team of Paraguay showed a banner before a Paraguayan Primera División match game against Club Sol de América that said "QEPD Rodrigo Quitana" ("R.I.P. Rodrigo Quintana") and asked for peace in Paraguay. The authorities of the Paraguayan Football Association later announced that they planned to sanction the club for violating the rules of competition, which aroused criticism from the Paraguayan public.


2017 Paraguayan crisis, Aftermath
Paraguayan citizens also engaged in escraches, a type of manifestation in which a group of activists goes to the address or workplace of someone to whom they want to denounce or rebuke, by going to the residences of Paraguayan senators and deputies to criticize their performance in the Paraguayan Congress regarding the implementation of the presidential re-election project. Many legislators have been surprised in parks and shopping malls where people have spontaneously shown up to express their disgust and discontent for the support to the constitutional amendment. Incidents such as these included the escrache of a senator when making a walk in a park, and an escrache in front of Lugo's residence in Lambaré.


2017 Paraguayan crisis, Aftermath
On 17 April 2017, President Cartes announced through a note sent to the metropolitan archbishop of the Archdiocese of Asunción, Monsignor Edmundo Valenzuela, that he would not run for a second term even if the amendment passed. Senate President Acevedo argued that the only way to believe the declarations of President Cartes was for the pro-government deputies to archive the draft bill. Despite President Cartes' statements, on 19 April, 44 deputies from the lower house of the Congress of Paraguay voted in favor of continuing to give legal course to the constitutional amendment of presidential reelection, which was reported to have aroused complaints among Paraguayan citizens in social networks.


2017 Paraguayan crisis, Aftermath
On 26 April 2017, the Chamber of Deputies of Paraguay rejected the constitutional amendment for presidential re-election. The legislative initiative was shelved by 78 votes in favor and one abstention. After the vote in the legislative body, hundreds of people gathered in the Plaza de Armas opposite the Congress, where they followed the session around a giant screen, and celebrated the result as "a victory of the people."


2017 Paris Sevens
The 2017 Paris Sevens was the 15th edition of the France Sevens, and the ninth tournament of the 2016–17 World Rugby Sevens Series. The tournament was played on 13–14 May 2017 at Stade Jean-Bouin in Paris.


2017 Paris Sevens
South Africa won the Cup final, defeating Scotland by 15–5 to clinch the overall series title for the season with an unassailable lead over the defending champions Fiji. New Zealand finished third in the Paris tournament, and Argentina won the Challenge trophy for ninth place.


2017 Paris Sevens, Format
The teams were drawn into four pools of four teams each. Each team played all the others in their pool once. The top two teams from each pool advanced to the Cup quarter finals. The bottom two teams from each group advanced to the Challenge Trophy quarter finals.


2017 Paris ePrix
The 2017 Paris ePrix (formally the 2017 Qatar Airways Paris ePrix) was a Formula E electric motor race held on 20 May 2017 at the Circuit des Invalides in the Les Invalides building complex before a crowd of 46,000 people. It was the sixth race of the 2016–17 Formula E season and the second Paris ePrix. e.Dams-Renault driver Sébastien Buemi won the 49-lap race from pole position. José María López finished second for the Virgin team and Mahindra driver Nick Heidfeld third.


2017 Paris ePrix
Buemi won the pole position by recording the fastest time in qualifying and held off second-placed starter Jean-Éric Vergne to keep the lead at the start of the race. Buemi pulled away from Vergne but the field was closed after a crash between championship rival Lucas di Grassi and António Félix da Costa on the 16th lap brought out a full course yellow. All drivers, including Buemi, made their mandatory pit stops to switch into a second car as a consequence of the accident.


2017 Paris ePrix
Buemi regained the lead three laps after the restart from Mike Conway when the latter made his own stop to switch into his second car. Vergne crashed on lap 34 which caused the safety car to be deployed. Buemi held off López at the restart four laps later and led the rest of the race to claim the victory. There were three lead changes among three different drivers during the course of the race.


2017 Paris ePrix
It was Buemi's fifth victory of the season, the eleventh of his career, and his first in Paris. The result extended Buemi's Drivers' Championship advantage to 43 points ahead of di Grassi, and his teammate Nico Prost maintained third place. Heidfeld's strong finish moved him to fourth and Vergne's failure to finish meant he to fifth. e.Dams-Renault consolidated their lead in the Teams' Championship to 75 points in front of the non-scoring Audi Sport ABT, and Mahindra kept third position with six races left in the season.


2017 Paris ePrix, Background
The Paris ePrix was confirmed as part of Formula E's 2016–17 series schedule in September 2016 by the FIA World Motor Sport Council. It was the sixth of twelve scheduled single-seater electric car races of the 2016–17 season, the second Paris ePrix, and was held on 20 May 2017 at the Circuit des Invalides in the Les Invalides building complex. The 2016 race was held in April but the 2017 edition was moved to May to enable teams and drivers to drive in improved weather conditions. The Circuit des Invalides is 1.93 kilometres (1.20 mi) long and is composed of 14 turns.


2017 Paris ePrix, Background
Before the race e.Dams-Renault driver Sébastien Buemi led the Drivers' Championship with 104 points, 15 ahead of  Lucas di Grassi in second and a further 43 in front of third-placed Nico Prost. Jean-Éric Vergne was fourth with 40 points and Sam Bird was fifth with 34 points. e.Dams-Renault led the Teams' Championship with 152 points; Audi Sport ABT were in second place on 115 points. Mahindra stood in third with 60 points, while Techeetah and Virgin contended for fourth position. e.Dams-Renault and Buemi had dominated the championship with di Grassi winning the Mexico City ePrix. Di Grassi, Bird and Vergne (twice) had all finished in second place and Mahindra teammates Nick Heidfeld (twice) and Felix Rosenqvist along with di Grassi and Bird had all finished third at least once.


2017 Paris ePrix, Background
Buemi, the pre-race favourite, stated that after winning the Monaco ePrix one week prior, he ventured to Paris with more motivation to achieve another podium finish, saying: "It's a special weekend for us with the team and I will do my best to continue our top form." José María López stated he felt his team were due a good finish after a sub-par performance in Monaco and had prepared extensively for the race. He looked forward to competing in Paris for the first time and expected to achieve a decent points-scoring position.


2017 Paris ePrix, Background
Heidfeld said he sought another podium finish to allow Mahindra to retain third place in the Teams' Championship but was wary of cold weather causing several cars to struggle on cold tyre temperatures. Vergne spoke of his belief Paris would be his "best race of the year" and praised the work the city put in to hold the race, "The Paris track is not the kind of track we have been to except for Hong Kong – really bumpy, narrow, difficult to drive – so we'll see how it goes."


2017 Paris ePrix, Background
There were two driver changes for the race. Loïc Duval (Dragon) and Maro Engel (Venturi) were unable to drive in Paris because of a Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters commitment at the EuroSpeedway Lausitz and were replaced by Toyota World Endurance Championship (WEC) driver Mike Conway and the Formula V8 3.5 Series champion Tom Dillmann. Conway had previously tested for Dragon in the first season's pre-season testing session at Donington Park and returned to the sport the following season to drive for Venturi in the campaign's final seven races.


2017 Paris ePrix, Background
Dillmann had prior experience driving for Venturi with his participation in the Mexico City ePrix shakedown session in place of regular driver Stéphane Sarrazin who attended the WEC pre-season test session at the Autodromo Nazionale di Monza for Toyota. Formula Two driver Nyck de Vries had been considered for the role before Dillmann was selected. Dillmann stated in a press release that he was "delighted" to take part in the event and expressed his desire to contest a full season of the series in the future.


2017 Paris ePrix, Practice
Two practice sessions—both on Saturday morning—were held before the Saturday late afternoon race. The first session ran for 45 minutes and the second for 30 minutes. A 30-minute shakedown session was held on late Friday afternoon without any major incidents but no lap times were officially published by Formula E. Both of the practice sessions took place in dry weather. In the first practice session, Buemi used 200 kW (270 hp) of power to record the fastest time of 1 minute, 1.998 seconds, seven-tenths of a second faster than López in second.


2017 Paris ePrix, Practice
Vergne, Di Grassi, Rosenqvist, Bird, Conway, Nelson Piquet Jr., Heidfeld and Prost made up positions three to ten. Bird's car shut down because of a power failure at the exit of the first turn. He abandoned his vehicle at the side of the track, and first practice was stopped temporarily after three minutes. Bird's teammate López caused a brief full course yellow flag period when he gently collided with the turn one barrier. He was able to reverse out of the corner and drove to the pit lane.


2017 Paris ePrix, Practice
Esteban Gutiérrez went onto a run-off area, and both Audi Sport ABT drivers locked their tyres, reversing out of the turn one escape road. Di Grassi recorded the second session's fastest lap late into a qualifying simulation at 1 minute, 1.359 seconds; he was two-tenths of a second faster than López in second. Buemi, Daniel Abt, Bird, Rosenqvist, Prost, Oliver Turvey of NextEV, Vergne and Andretti's Robin Frijns occupied positions three through ten. During the second practice, where multiple drivers ran deep onto the turn one run-off area, Conway pushed hard, causing him to lose control of his car's rear at the final corner. He spun but avoided damage to his vehicle.


2017 Paris ePrix, Qualifying
Saturday afternoon's qualifying session ran for 60 minutes and was divided into four groups of five cars. Each group was determined by a lottery system and was permitted six minutes of on-track activity. All drivers were limited to two timed laps with one at maximum power. The fastest five overall competitors in the four groups participated in a "Super Pole" session with one driver on the track at any time going out in reverse order from fifth to first.


2017 Paris ePrix, Qualifying
Each of the five drivers was limited to one timed lap and the starting order was determined by the competitor's fastest times (Super Pole from first to fifth, and group qualifying from sixth to twentieth). The driver and team who recorded the fastest time were awarded three points towards their respective championships. Qualifying took place in dry weather.


2017 Paris ePrix, Qualifying
Lap times were slower than the previous year's session because of subtle track surface changes and new tyres provided by Michelin. In the first group of five drivers, which saw no one venture out of their garages and onto the track for the first three minutes because they were unwilling to see who would be the first to set a benchmark lap, Buemi set the fastest overall lap in group qualifying with a lap of 1 minute, 2.171 seconds, ahead of Rosenqvist, di Grassi. Abt and Bird.


2017 Paris ePrix, Qualifying
López was fastest in the track's first third of the lap to lead the second group, followed by Mitch Evans (Jaguar) and Prost, Conway and Piquet. In the third group, local favourite Vergne went second-fastest overall, with Turvey 0.110 seconds slower. Gutiérrez, Jérôme d'Ambrosio and Stéphane Sarrazin (Andretti and Venturi) completed the third group. Sarrazin pulled over to the side of the track when his powertrain switched off during his minimum power lap, before restarting his car. This allowed him to continue, although the problem meant he started from last on the grid.


2017 Paris ePrix, Qualifying
Despite going the fastest of any competitor in the fourth group, Heidfeld narrowly missed out on qualifying for the super pole, while second-quickest driver Frijns was also not able to advance further by less than a tenth of a second. Dillmann, António Félix da Costa and Adam Carroll (Andretti and Jaguar) competed the fourth group's running order. After group qualifying ended, Buemi, Vergne, Turvey, López and Gutiérrez qualified for super pole.


2017 Paris ePrix, Qualifying
Gutiérrez was the first driver to attempt his super pole lap and recorded fast times before locking his brakes and running deep into the turn eight escape road, and was restricted to fifth. López, seeking his first pole position in Formula E, was the next competitor to drive onto the track and took third, but was investigated for the inadvertent usage of excessive electrical energy on his out-lap after mistakenly switching his car's settings. Although no penalty was applied, the switching of settings damaged his car's battery, leading to it being changed before the race.


2017 Paris ePrix, Qualifying
Turvey was fastest in the first third of the lap before a small error in the following section left him fourth. Vergne was faster than López to move into provisional pole position. Buemi was the final driver to set his lap, and despite making small errors in the final third of the lap took pole position with a time of 1 minute, 2.319 seconds. The time gap to Vergne was 0.006 seconds, the closest in Formula E history. It was Buemi's second consecutive pole position, and the eighth of his career. After qualifying ended, Turvey was demoted ten places on the grid because his team changed a powertrain component. Following penalties, the rest of the grid order was set as Heidfeld, Rosenqvist, Frijns, Evans, Prost, Conway, Piquet, d'Ambrosio, di Grassi, Turvey, Dillmann, Abt, Félix da Costa, Bird, Carroll and Sarrazin.


2017 Paris ePrix, Race
A special feature of Formula E is the "Fan Boost" feature, an additional 100 kW (130 hp) of power to use in the driver's second car. The three drivers who were allowed to use the boost were determined by a fan vote. For the Paris race, Buemi, di Grassi and Abt were handed the extra power. The race began at 16:00 Central European Summer Time (UTC+2).


2017 Paris ePrix, Race
The weather at the start were dry and sunny with an air temperature between 17.9 to 19.0 °C (64 to 66 °F) and a track temperature from 32.2 to 34.4 °C (90 to 94 °F); a 10 percent chance of rain was forecast. 46,000 people attended the ePrix due to an expansion in seating and lower ticket prices; organisers had initially expected 10,000 people to attend. Buemi held off Vergne on the outside line to lead the field on the approach into the first corner.


2017 Paris ePrix, Race
López narrowly avoided colliding with Vergne, and the latter was pressured by the fast-starting Heidfeld who passed Gutiérrez. Abt made the best start in the field, gaining four positions by the end of the first lap, while Turvey and di Grassi dropped the same number of positions over the same distance. At the end of the first lap, Buemi led from Vergne, López, Heidfeld, Gutiérrez, Rosenqvist, Frijns, Evans, Prost and d'Ambrosio.


2017 Paris ePrix, Race
After the first lap passed without any major incidents, the field settled down for the time being before the first on-track battles commenced. After three laps, Buemi held a one-second advantage over Vergne. Gutiérrez was driving slower than the cars around him and was overtaken by Rosenqvist for fifth place on the seventh lap. Following the loss of fifth, Gutiérrez continued to struggle to match the pace of the top five drivers.


2017 Paris ePrix, Race
He led a six-car battle for sixth place but benefited from the track's tight nature to remain there. Di Grassi had difficulty getting ahead of Dillmann and Félix da Costa gained on di Grassi and started to attack him. Félix da Costa overtook di Grassi heading into turn one but di Grassi remained close behind.


2017 Paris ePrix, Race
On lap 20, di Grassi attempted to overtake Félix da Costa on the outside into turn seven, and moved ahead before the braking area. Di Grassi then steered right to take the turn with his car's right-rear corner level with Félix da Costa's front-left wheel, causing the two to collide. After Félix da Costa hit the inside barrier, both cars speared into the outside wall.


2017 Paris ePrix, Race
Di Grassi was able to restart but Félix da Costa's race ended prematurely and the full course yellow flag was shown to allow officials to retrieve his car. Most of the field, including Buemi, used the opportunity to make the mandatory switch into their second cars as a consequence of the accident. Conway elected not to enter the pit lane and led the field back up to speed at the lap 23 restart. Di Grassi took advantage of the situation to move into tenth.


2017 Paris ePrix, Race
Conway made his pit stop on lap 26, handing the lead back to Buemi, whose advantage over Vergne had been reduced to slightly more than one second. Di Grassi overtook Prost with FanBoost for eighth the following lap. Frijns passed Gutiérrez for sixth place and the latter lost seventh and eighth to di Grassi and Prost soon after.


2017 Paris ePrix, Race
The stewards handed Di Grassi and Carroll drive-through penalties for being under the minimum pit stop time; di Grassi took his penalty on the 31st lap, emerging in 18th behind Carroll, but returned to the pit lane for car repairs two laps later. Vergne was drawing closer to Buemi on lap 34, but suspected something broke on his car, which loosened his steering. Vergne ran wide leaving turn 13, damaging his vehicle's front-right corner in a collision with a barrier and ending his race. Vergne's stranded car necessitated the deployment of the safety car, with López elevated to second and Heidfeld third. D'Ambrosio drove into his garage on lap 35 to retire with mechanical issues.


2017 Paris ePrix, Race
Racing resumed on lap 38 and López got close to Buemi but could not take the lead. Di Grassi elected to make a pit stop and temporarily set the race's fastest lap. Frijns, Dillmann and Gutiérrez were issued five-second time penalties after they were observed speeding under full course yellow flag conditions. Bird went faster than di Grassi to record the race's fastest lap of 1 minute, 2.422 on lap 42, earning him one point in the Drivers' Championship. With three laps remaining, di Grassi locked his brakes and crashed at turn eight with the front of his car.


2017 Paris ePrix, Race
As was the case the previous year, the race finished behind the safety car. Drivers were not permitted to overtake and Buemi took his fifth victory of the season, the eleventh of his career, and his first in Paris. López finished second, 0.707 seconds behind, achieving his first Formula E podium, and Heidfeld took his second consecutive third-place finish.


2017 Paris ePrix, Race
Abt caused confusion when his car stopped on the track halfway before the start/finish line with a battery management system failure; drivers behind him were hesitant to pass him for fear of being penalised, creating a large blockade on the narrow backstraight. Rosenqvist finished fourth and Prost fifth. Frijns was demoted to sixth after his time penalty was applied. Piquet, Dillmann, Evans and Sarrazin rounded out the top ten. Gutiérrez finished 11th after his time penalty was enforced. Turvey, Abt, Conway, Carroll and Bird were the final classified finishers. There were three lead changes in the race; three drivers reached the front of the field. Buemi led twice for a total of 44 laps, out of 49.


2017 Paris ePrix, Race, Post-race
The top three drivers appeared on the podium to collect their trophies and spoke to the media at a later press conference. Buemi revealed he attempted to brake as late as possible to prevent Vergne from overtaking him at the start but had used more electrical energy than expected when he established an advantage. He stated that he lost some time under full course yellow conditions but when Vergne retired, he "was having a nice time, as he was putting me under pressure."


2017 Paris ePrix, Race, Post-race
Buemi stated his belief he would not have won had e.Dams-Renault not repaired his car's powertrain at their technical headquarters in Viry-Châtillon. However he spoke of his feeling the team deserved the victory more than him due to them overcoming the preceding year's problems with track conditions. López said from the beginning of the season, his car was good, but he was not yet experienced enough to be competitive. However, he stated his team "worked hard" in the event at a track which he liked and said he felt it played a role in his second-place result.


2017 Paris ePrix, Race, Post-race
Third-place finisher Heidfeld stated it felt "great" to have achieved his second consecutive podium result, and that it was "another exciting race", and his team were more competitive than they were in Monaco. He said it was "a great result" for Mahindra, and that they would not stop until they had achieved their objective of securing their first victory.


2017 Paris ePrix, Race, Post-race
The stewards investigated the collision between di Grassi and Félix da Costa but elected to take no action towards the latter, and di Grassi spoke to Félix da Costa post-race. Di Grassi claimed Félix da Costa "didn't know how to race today" and that he was passed "very harshly". He admitted to have not seen Félix da Costa after overtaking him: "That's the price of starting at the back, there's always these risks. That generated the crash and then this chaotic domino effect that really was a day to forget."


2017 Paris ePrix, Race, Post-race
Félix da Costa blamed di Grassi for causing the collision, claiming the latter was "out of character" and saying he would not have thought di Grassi would attempt such a manoeuvre. He added while di Grassi was intelligent, he steered earlier than expected which put him into the wall: "He was being very clever – I overtook him and he was staying there. But one lap to another his mind just switched, he tried to overtake me like 20 times in five corners.


2017 Paris ePrix, Race, Post-race
He was all over me, and then he was just trying desperate moves everywhere." Di Grassi said his team would forget about the event because of him going from being the fastest driver in the second practice session to having a slow qualifying lap and would recover for the next race of the season.


2017 Paris ePrix, Race, Post-race
Vergne stated his belief he could have challenged Buemi for the victory. He revealed he worked hard to conserve a large amount of electrical energy, waiting for his chance to attack Buemi: "The car was so much better, I was faster than him in the second stint considering how little energy I was consuming and unfortunately a failure broke all those chances. A lot of hard work disappeared in an instant."


2017 Paris ePrix, Race, Post-race
Frijns said he was delighted to finish in a points-scoring position but felt the event was "one of the more bizarre races of my career" and was of the opinion that luck was on his side. He stated it had been a long period of time since he had scored points and his sixth-place finish was "significant" for himself and his team.


2017 Paris ePrix, Race, Post-race
Dillmann said his maiden race was "really good fun" following his battle with di Grassi and Piquet, but that he had to learn everything when the day started though he stressed it passed without any major problems: "I built up step by step. I only had a 50km test before, so that was quite tough to jump in against guys who have been racing here for three years."


2017 Paris ePrix, Race, Post-race
The result extended Buemi's lead over di Grassi in the Drivers' Championship to 43 points, with Prost a further 29 points behind in third. Heidfeld moved to fourth place and Vergne dropped to fifth. e.Dams-Renault's strong performance allowed them to consolidate their lead in the Teams' Championship with 190 points; although neither of their cars scored points, Audi Sport ABT were still second while Mahindra's strong results strengthened their hold on third place. With Techeetah not scoring points, Virgin and NextEV moved into fourth and fifth respectively with six races left in the season. Despite the setbacks for Audi Sport ABT, the team's principal Hans-Jürgen Abt said he hoped they had used up all the bad luck and wanted to be back in contention for the season's next two races.


2017 Paris shooting
On the evening of 19 September 2017, a policeman killed three people and wounded three others during a killing spree in Paris, France.


2017 Paris shooting, Shootings
At about 20:45 local time in the commune of Sarcelles, in the northern suburbs of Paris, 31-year-old policeman Arnaud M. and his girlfriend were discussing in their car, as the woman had the intention of breaking up the relationship with the man. Suddenly, the officer pointed the gun against his girlfriend and opened fire, critically wounding her in the face. Two local men, aged 30 and 44, who were nearby at the time of the incident, intervened as they heard the gunshot. The gunman got out of the car and shot and killed the two men. He then went to the girlfriend's house, where he encountered her parents and sister. Arnaud M. opened fire again and killed the woman's father and wounded the mother and the sister. He then killed the family's pet dog and committed suicide, ending the killing spree.


2017 Paris–Nice
The 2017 Paris–Nice was a road cycling stage race that took place between 5 and 12 March. It was the 75th edition of the Paris–Nice and was the sixth event of the 2017 UCI World Tour.


2017 Paris–Nice
Team Sky won the race for the fifth time in six years, with Sergio Henao managing to fend off a final-day attack from Trek–Segafredo's Alberto Contador to win the race by just two seconds. Contador had trailed by 31 seconds overnight, but had gone clear with Quick-Step Floors rider David de la Cruz and Marc Soler of the Movistar Team; after taking a couple of seconds at an intermediate sprint, Contador was beaten to the line in Nice by de la Cruz, which cost him four bonus seconds and decided the race in favour of Henao. The podium was completed by de la Cruz's teammate Dan Martin, 30 seconds in arrears of Henao.


2017 Paris–Nice
Quick-Step Floors were able to win the teams classification, with Julian Alaphilippe also finishing in the top-five overall, having held the race lead for three days during the week. Alaphilippe was the winner of the young rider classification, while four top-five stage finishes including a win in the individual time trial was also enough for him to clinch the points classification. The other jersey on offer was claimed by Direct Énergie for the second year in succession, as Lilian Calmejane won the mountains classification.


2017 Paris–Nice, Teams
As Paris–Nice was a UCI World Tour event, all eighteen UCI WorldTeams were invited automatically and obliged to enter a team in the race. Four UCI Professional Continental teams competed, completing the 22-team peloton.


2017 Paris–Nice, Teams
Just as they did in the 2016 edition of the race, Lotto–Soudal chose to compete under a different name from the rest of the season: they became Lotto Fix ALL, taking the name of a product made by Soudal, their normal sponsor. They also wore blue and white jerseys in place of their normal red and white.


2017 Paris–Nice, Route
The route of the 2017 Paris–Nice was announced on 3 January 2017. The race started with a road stage for the first time since 2014, with a circuit race around Bois-d'Arcy in the Yvelines department. A mountain-top time trial was also scheduled for the race, but unlike previous years, it was not held on the Col d'Èze. However, it was scheduled for Mont Brouilly, a 3 km (1.9 mi)-long climb with an average gradient of 7.7%, but reaching over 9% in the final kilometre. Mont Brouilly was due to feature as a stage finish in the 2016 Paris–Nice, but the stage was ultimately cancelled due to snow.


2017 Paris–Nice, Route
The penultimate stage was earmarked as the queen stage of the race, with two first-category climbs in the closing 40 kilometres (25 miles) of the stage – the Col Saint Martin and the stage finish at the Col de la Couillole; the finish was also the highest in the race's history, at 1,678 metres (5,505 feet) above sea level. Both mountains had previously featured during the fifteenth stage of the 1975 Tour de France, when Bernard Thévenet ultimately wrested what would have been a sixth yellow jersey away from Eddy Merckx, at the finish at Pra-Loup. The final stage finished along the seafront in Nice, but not on the Promenade des Anglais as customary, as a mark of respect to the victims of the Bastille Day terrorist attack in 2016. Instead, the race ended at the Quai des États-Unis.


2017 Paris–Nice, Classification leadership table
In the 2017 Paris–Nice, four jerseys were awarded. The general classification was calculated by adding each cyclist's finishing times on each stage. Time bonuses were awarded to the first three finishers on all stages except for the individual time trial: the stage winner won a ten-second bonus, with six and four seconds for the second and third riders respectively. Bonus seconds were also awarded to the first three riders at intermediate sprints – three seconds for the winner of the sprint, two seconds for the rider in second and one second for the rider in third. The leader of the general classification received a yellow jersey. This classification was considered the most important of the 2017 Paris–Nice, and the winner of the classification was considered the winner of the race.


2017 Paris–Nice, Classification leadership table
The second classification was the points classification. Riders were awarded points for finishing in the top ten in a stage. Unlike in the points classification in the Tour de France, the winners of all stages were awarded the same number of points. Points were also won in intermediate sprints; three points for crossing the sprint line first, two points for second place, and one for third. The leader of the points classification was awarded a green jersey.


2017 Paris–Nice, Classification leadership table
There was also a mountains classification, for which points were awarded for reaching the top of a climb before other riders. Each climb was categorised as either first, second, or third-category, with more points available for the more difficult, higher-categorised climbs. For first-category climbs, the top seven riders earned points; on second-category climbs, five riders won points; on third-category climbs, only the top three riders earned points. The leadership of the mountains classification was marked by a white jersey with red polka-dots.


2017 Paris–Nice, Classification leadership table
The fourth jersey represented the young rider classification, marked by a white jersey, which was restored after not being awarded in 2016. Only riders born after 1 January 1992 were eligible; the young rider best placed in the general classification was the leader of the young rider classification. There was also a classification for teams, in which the times of the best three cyclists in a team on each stage were added together; the leading team at the end of the race was the team with the lowest cumulative time.


2017 Paris–Roubaix
The 2017 Paris–Roubaix was a road cycling one-day race that took place on 9 April 2017. It was the 115th edition of the Paris–Roubaix and was  the fifteenth event of the 2017 UCI World Tour.


2017 Paris–Roubaix
It was won by Greg Van Avermaet (BMC Racing Team) in a five-man sprint – for his first Monument classic victory – ahead of Quick-Step Floors rider Zdeněk Štybar and Sebastian Langeveld of Cannondale–Drapac. The average speed of 45.2 km/h was a record.


2017 Paris–Roubaix, Teams
As Paris-Roubaix is a UCI World Tour event, all 18 UCI World Teams were invited automatically and were obliged to send a squad. In February 2017, the race organisers announced the seven UCI Professional Continental teams that had received wildcard invitations, completing the 25-team peloton.


2017 Paris–Tours
The 111th edition of the Paris–Tours cycling classic was held on 8 October 2017. The race was part of the 2017 UCI Europe Tour, ranked as a 1.HC event. Matteo Trentin won in a time of 5hr22'51", two bike lengths ahead of Søren Kragh Andersen. Niki Terpstra was third.


2017 Paris–Tours, Route
The race started in Brou, 70 km west of Paris, and finished in Tours, in the center-west of France, after 234.5 km of racing.


2017 Parramatta Eels season
The 2017 Parramatta Eels season is the 71st in the club's history. Coached by Brad Arthur, they are competing in the NRL's 2017 Telstra Premiership.


2017 Party of Growth presidential primaries
The 2017 Party of Growth presidential primaries is the selection process by which voters of the Party of Growth were to choose its potential nominee for President of Russia in the 2018 Russian presidential election. Voting for candidates took place via the internet.


2017 Party of Growth presidential primaries, History
At the end of July 2017, the Party of Growth decided on the list of participants in the primaries.


2017 Party of Growth presidential primaries, History
On 10 August 2017, the party's press secretary told the media that the results of the primaries will be taken into account at the party congress which will be held to decide the candidate for Party of Growth; however, the winner of the primaries will not guarantee themselves the right to ballot on behalf of the party.


2017 Party of Growth presidential primaries, History
On 26 November 2017, it was announced that the party will nominate Boris Titov, who was not involved in the primaries. According to a person from the party leadership, none of the proposed candidates were able to obtain sufficient support.


2017 Patan riots
The 2017 Patan riots refers to the riots between Muslims and Hindus in the Vadavali village in Gujarat’s Patan district.


2017 Patan riots, Background
According to the police the violence started following a minor fight between two students of different communities. Sunsar residents stated that Muslim students had beaten Hindu students and them being attacked by Vadavali residents when they reached there, while Vadavali residents accused Thakores of starting the riots.


2017 Patan riots, Background
The mobs attacked and looted around 50 Muslim houses and set them on fire including many vehicles. Two people were killed, and ten were injured,


2017 Patan riots, Aftermath
The Indian government deployed 100 police personnel and two companies of State Reserve Police at the village. In an official report sent to the revenue department, the district collector of the district, KK Nirala called the event a "Hindu-Muslim riot" and media reports said the violence followed after a fight between a Muslilm student and a Thakore student outside an examination centre.


2017 Patan riots, Aftermath
However, a report by Vadavali Nagrik Adhikar Samiti, an NGO formed by human rights workers and lawyers, stated that the violence was a well planned and organised attack on the Muslims residents by a team that included a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. The police filed two FIRs, which included 31 people of Thakore community, and 14 Muslims. A total of 14 arrests have been made.


2017 Patna boat accident
On 14 January 2017, a boat carrying more than 40 passengers capsized in the Ganges in the Indian city of Patna, Bihar, killing 25 people. The boat was about to reach the bank when it capsized. Overloading is suspected to be the cause of the accident.


2017 Patna boat accident, Incident
The boat was returning from a kite-flying festival on an island called Ganga Diyara in the middle of the Ganges, as part of the Makar Sankranti celebration in the city of Patna. The  small boat, which was overloaded with passengers, was about to reach the bank when it capsized. The boat's capacity was 30 people, but estimates from local officials placed its actual load at 40 to 50.


2017 Patna boat accident, Rescue operation
Rescue operations located 19 bodies on 14 January, and five more on 15 January before they ended once, according to local police, there were no more outstanding missing persons. Nine people were retrieved from the river by rescuers, while about a dozen swam to shore. Eight people were hospitalized at the Patna Medical College and Hospital(PMCH)


2017 Patna boat accident, Relief
The Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, announced an ex gratia payment from the Prime Minister National Relief Fund of ₹2 lakh for the next of kin of those who died in the  boat accident and ₹50 thousand for those seriously injured. Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar also announced that compensation of ₹4 lakh will be given to relatives of each of the dead.


2017 Patriot League Baseball Tournament
The 2017 Patriot League Baseball Tournament took place on consecutive weekends, with the semifinals held May 13–14 and the finals May 19–21. The higher seeded teams hosted each best of three series. Holy Cross won their first tournament championship and earned the conference's automatic bid to the 2017 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament.


2017 Patriot League Baseball Tournament, Seeding
The top four finishers from the regular season are seeded one through four, with the top seed hosting the fourth seed and second seed hosting the third. The visiting team will be designated as the home team in the second game of each series.


2017 Patriot League Baseball Tournament, All-Tournament team, Most Outstanding Player
Brendan King was named Tournament Most Outstanding Player. King was a senior pitcher for Holy Cross who won two games in the tournament with 14.1 IP and a 1.88 ERA.


2017 Patriot League Men's Basketball Tournament
The 2017 Patriot League Men's Basketball Tournament was the postseason conference tournament for the Patriot League. It was played February 28, March 2, 5, and 8, 2017 with the higher seed in each matchup hosting at their respective campus sites. Bucknell defeated Lehigh, 81–65, in the championship game to win the Tournament. As a result, Bucknell received the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.


2017 Patriot League Men's Basketball Tournament, Seeds
All 10 Patriot League teams were eligible for the tournament. The top six teams received a first round bye. Teams were seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records.


2017 Patriot League Men's Soccer Tournament
The 2017 Patriot League Men's Soccer Tournament, was the 28th edition of the tournament. It determined the Patriot League's automatic berth into the 2017 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship.


2017 Patriot League Men's Soccer Tournament
The tournament was won by Colgate Raiders, who qualified for the tournament on the last day of the regular season as the sixth and final seed in the tournament. Colgate were also the defending champions, and were able to capture their seventh Patriot League Tournament championship, tying them with Lafayette. En route to the final, Colgate upset third-seed Bucknell and top seed Loyola. In the final, a 67th minute striker from Oliver Harris sealed the title for the Raiders against Holy Cross.


2017 Patriot League Men's Soccer Tournament
With the championship, Colgate earned an automatic berth into the 2017 NCAA Tournament. There they made a run to the Sweet Sixteen, upsetting No. 24 UMass and No. 13 Michigan along the way. Colgate ultimately fell to Louisville.


2017 Patriot League Men's Soccer Tournament, Seeding
The top six programs qualified for the Patriot League Tournament.


2017 Patriot League Men's Soccer Tournament, Awards
Jared Stroud, Colgate Sr., MSteven DeLeo, Colgate, Jr., FOliver Harris, Colgate, Jr., MAram Ouligian, Colgate, Jr., DYuji Callahan, Holy Cross, Sr., F/MBrad Ross, Holy Cross, Sr., DHenry Stutz, Holy Cross, Jr., GKGabriel Carlsson, Loyola Maryland, Jr., MJosh Fawole, Loyola Maryland So., FSatchel Cortet, Boston University, So., MAdam Sheikali, Boston University, Sr., D


2017 Patriot League Women's Basketball Tournament
The 2017 Patriot League Women's Basketball Tournament was held March 4, 6, 10 and 11 at campus sites of the higher seed, except that both semi-final games will be played at the same site of the highest seed. This means that Bucknell vs. American and Army vs. Navy will both be played in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania at Sojka Pavilion on Friday, March 10, 2017, at 5:00pm and 7:30pm respectively. The winner of the tournament will  earn an automatic trip to the NCAA Women's Tournament.


2017 Patriot League Women's Basketball Tournament, Seeds
Teams are seeded by conference record, with ties broken in the following order:


2017 Patriot League Women's Soccer Tournament
The 2017 Patriot League Women's Soccer Tournament was the postseason women's soccer tournament for the Patriot League held from October 31 through November 5, 2017. The quarterfinals of the tournament will be held at campus sites, while the semifinals and final took place at Glenn Warner Soccer Facility in Annapolis, Maryland. The six-team single-elimination tournament consisted of three rounds based on seeding from regular season conference play. The defending champions were the Bucknell Bison and they successfully defended their title, defeating the Navy Midshipmen in the conference final. The conference championship was the fourth for the Bucknell women's soccer program and the second for head coach Kelly Cook.


2017 Pattani bombing
On 9 May 2017, two bombs exploded at a Big C supermarket in Pattani, Thailand. Some 80 people were confirmed injured, some seriously and no deaths were reported. Most of the wounded received treatment at the scene, but 21 people were taken to hospital with serious injuries.


2017 Pattani bombing, Attack
The attack took place around 14:50/2.50 pm Thai time (07:50 UTC) when the first bomb planted on a motorcycle occurred near the entrance at the Big C supermarket. 10 minutes later, a second blast a larger and more powerful explosion which was planted inside a bag on a pickup truck, exploded occurred outside the building entrance.


2017 Pattani bombing, Attack
Before that, the Big C supermarket here was bombed twice before. The first time on 1 August 2005 and the second one took place on 11 March 2012.


2017 Pattani bombing, Suspects
Thai police suspected that the perpetrators were most likely Pattani Muslim separatists. On 10 May, Pattani Police initially believed that three groups of six people were involved in the bombings. A massive manhunt has been launched for four men who were allegedly involved in the twin blasts, who had suspected links to Barisan Revolusi Nasional.


2017 Paul Hunter Classic
The 2017 Paul Hunter Classic was a professional ranking snooker tournament that took place in August 2017 at the Stadthalle in Fürth, Germany. It was the third ranking event of the 2017/2018 season. The tournament is named in honour of former snooker professional, Paul Hunter.


2017 Paul Hunter Classic
Mark Selby was the defending champion, but he lost 1–4 to Michael White in the fourth round. White went on to beat Shaun Murphy 4–2 in the final, capturing his second world ranking title.


2017 Paul Hunter Classic, Prize fund
The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:


2017 Paul Hunter Classic, Amateur pre-qualifying
These matches were played in Fürth on 22–24 August 2017. All matches were best of 7 frames.


2017 Payson flash floods
The 2017 Ellison Creek flooding or mostly known as the 2017 Payson flash floods occurred on July 15, 2017, near Payson, Arizona, in the Water Wheel Falls Hiking Trail in the Tonto National Forest that unfortunately killed 10 members of an extended family. Before the tragedy, 10 of those people, including 4 others, were celebrating a birthday party.


2017 Payson flash floods, Start of the flood event
On the day of July 15, 2017, an extended family of 14 were celebrating a birthday party at the Cold Springs Swimming Hole in the Water Wheel Falls Hiking Trail. The weather was cloudy and calm with some heavy rains throughout the day with temperatures reaching into the 90's. Besides the family of 14, many other people were also at Water Wheel Falls Hiking Trail to relax and swim in cold waters in the area. Hours earlier, heavy rains hit the area as part of the North American Monsoon, which hits the Southwestern U.S. every year between June and mid-September.


2017 Payson flash floods, Start of the flood event
At around 3 p.m. (MST), many of the people, including children, were swimming in the waters of the canyon when all of a sudden they hear a loud prolonged sound. When the people looked upstream, they saw a large wall of black muddy water rushing towards them. The water was carrying rocks and large logs the size of cars. The flood waters were approximately 6-foot tall and 40-feet wide. The flood swept away many of the swimmers while many other people were holding onto trees waiting to be rescued. The floods eventually moved into the East Verde River.


2017 Payson flash floods, Start of the flood event, The search for survivors and fatalities
While the waters of the flood were damaging everything in its path, 911 dispatchers were called and helicopters were needed to be used to rescue the people struggling to stay alive. Luckily, many of the people were rescued. After the flood event, searches for the missing were conducted. Many family members of the missing arrived on scene and were worried that their relatives didn't make it. In the following days, an announcement was made that search crews did unfortunately find 9 bodies and 1 was still missing. The missing person named Hector Garnica was found days later deceased.


2017 Payson flash floods, Aftermath
As a result, the flood event left 10 people dead (half of them children) and 4 people were injured. A funeral was held for the people who died in the flood. The cost of damages is unknown. Years later, family members of the victims had filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Government for wrongful death, negligence, and negligent infliction of emotional distress.


2017 Payson flash floods, Causes
There were mainly two causes of the flash flood. A month earlier before the tragedy occurred, the Highline Fire, a raging wildfire that burned 7,000+ acres of land near Ellison Creek, which explains the mixture of ash and logs that were in the flood waters on the day of the disaster. Another cause that might have been the main culprit for the tragedy was that even though there was a flash flood warning issued for the area, in the people's remote spot they did not get the warning.


2017 Payson flash floods, Gallery
Closure sign in front of the entrance to the Cold Springs Swimming Hole after flash floods


2017 Payson flash floods, Gallery
Heavy rains that hit the areas of Ellison Creek and the Cold Springs Swimming Hole hours before the flash floods occurred


2017 Pekao Szczecin Open
The 2017 Pekao Szczecin Open was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the 25th edition of the tournament which was part of the 2017 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Szczecin, Poland between 9 and 17 September 2017.


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


2017 Pekao Szczecin Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants
The following players received entry into the singles main draw as special exempts:


2017 Pekao Szczecin Open – Doubles
Andre Begemann and Aliaksandr Bury were the defending champions but only Bury chose to defend his title, partnering Andreas Siljeström. Bury lost in the final to Wesley Koolhof and Artem Sitak.


2017 Pekao Szczecin Open – Doubles
Koolhof and Sitak won the title after defeating Bury and Siljeström 6–1, 7–5 in the final.


2017 Pekao Szczecin Open – Singles
Alessandro Giannessi was the defending champion but lost in the first round to Artem Smirnov.


2017 Pekao Szczecin Open – Singles
Richard Gasquet won the title after defeating Florian Mayer 7–6(7–3), 7–6(7–4) in the final.


2017 Pembroke state by-election
A by-election was held in the Tasmanian Legislative Council division of Pembroke on 4 November 2017. It was triggered by the resignation of sitting member Vanessa Goodwin, who was diagnosed with brain cancer.


2017 Pembroke state by-election, Background
The electoral division of Pembroke is located on the eastern shore of the River Derwent in Hobart.


2017 Pembroke state by-election, Background
Vanessa Goodwin, a member of the Liberal Party, was elected on 1 August 2009 at a by-election to replace Labor member Allison Ritchie who had resigned. When the Liberals won government in 2014, Goodwin was appointed as Attorney-General, Minister for Justice, Minister for Corrections and Minister for the Arts.


2017 Pembroke state by-election, Background
On 25 March 2017, Goodwin was hospitalised with multiple brain tumours. On 6 April, Premier Will Hodgman informed the parliament that she was not expected to recover. Goodwin resigned on 2 October 2017.


2017 Pembrokeshire County Council election
An election to Pembrokeshire County Council was held on 4 May 2017 as part of wider local elections across Wales. The election was preceded by the 2012 election. Twelve seats (out of the sixty available) had candidates elected unopposed.


2017 Pembrokeshire County Council election, Ward results, Burton
Rob Summons was elected as an Independent at a by-election in 2013.


2017 Pembrokeshire County Council election, Ward results, Fishguard North West
Pat Davies was elected as a Labour candidate in 2012


2017 Pembrokeshire County Council election, Ward results, Haverfordwest Priory
The sitting member was elected as an Independent in 2012.


2017 Pembrokeshire County Council election, Ward results, Letterston
Tom Richards, who had held the seat as an Independent since 1995, chose to contest as a Conservative having only narrowly defeated a Conservative in 2012.


2017 Pembrokeshire County Council election, Ward results, Milford Central
Stephen Joseph was elected as a Plaid Cymru candidate in 2012 but subsequently left the party.


2017 Pembrokeshire County Council election, Ward results, Rudbaxton
Steve Yelland was elected as an Independent in 2012, defeating the sitting Conservative candidate


2017 Pembrokeshire County Council election, Ward results, Scleddau
Owen Watkin James was elected as a Conservative in 2008 and 2012.


2017 Penang FA season
The 2017 season is Penang's 91st competitive season, 2nd consecutive season in the top flight of Malaysian football, and 96th year in existence as a football club. The season covers the period from 1 November 2016 to 31 October 2017.


2017 Penang FA season, Month by month review, November 2016
On 28 November, Ashley Westwood was unveiled as the new head coach of Penang, signing a two-year contract. On 30 November, Penang received RM 4 millions allocation from the state government.


2017 Penang FA season, Month by month review, December 2016
On 1 December, Penang confirmed that Legea will be the official kit manufacturer for three years from 2017. On 5 December, Penang announced it had retained 16 players from last season. On 22 December, it was announced that on the FA Cup second round, Penang will play at away against MPKB-BRI U- BeS. On 30 December, it was announced that on the opening day, Penang will kick-off the season at away against Selangor.


2017 Penang FA season, Month by month review, January
Penang won its first pre-season match, against Felcra FC, which ended in a 2–0 victory. In the following match four days later, Penang won 2–1 against PDRM. On 9 January, Faiz Subri won the 2016 FIFA Puskás Award, becoming the first Asian to win the award. On 13 January, Penang confirmed the signings of Amirul Asyraf Suhaidi, K. Reuben, Yong Kuong Yong, Zulkhairi Zulkeply, Shazalee Ramlee, Nigel Dabinyaba, Diogo Ferreira and Andy Russell. Penang concluded its pre-season campaign with a 0–1 defeat to Nagaworld FC from Cambodia on the same day. On 18 January, Penang completed the signings of Syed Adney and G. Mahathevan, while Elias Sulaiman and Darwira Sazan were released. Penang lost 0–2 in their opening match against Selangor on 21 January at Selayang. On 27 January, Penang lost again in the league campaign against Perak.