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The 2017–2018 North Korea crisis was a period of heightened tension between North Korea and the United States throughout 2017. The crisis began early in 2017 when North Korea conducted a series of missile and nuclear tests that demonstrated the country's ability to launch ballistic missiles beyond its immediate region, suggesting their ...
Health and environment 2017 Philippine dengue vaccination crisis The Philippine Department of Health temporarily suspends a school-based dengue vaccination program after Dengvaxia vaccine maker Sanofi Pasteur made a statement that its product poses higher risks to people without prior dengue infection. (Rappler) (Philippine Daily Inquirer) Law and crime Links between Trump associates and ...
On October 1, 2017, 64-year-old Stephen Paddock opened fire on 22,000 people at a country music festival from his hotel suite on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay hotel on the Las Vegas strip ...
Unix time. 1483228800 – 1514764799. 2017 ( MMXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2017th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 17th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 8th year of the 2010s decade.
2017 FIA World Endurance Championship. Porsche wins the 2017 24 Hours of Le Mans, the team's third consecutive Le Mans victory. Aston Martin wins in LMGTE Pro, their first in the category. 2017 U.S. Open (golf) In golf, Brooks Koepka of the United States wins the 2017 U.S. Open at the Erin Hills course.
October 2017 Northern California wildfires. More than a dozen wildfires around Mendocino, Napa, Sonoma, and Yuba counties in California, kill at least ten people, destroy at least 1500 homes and businesses, and force 20 thousand people to evacuate. The Governor of California, Jerry Brown, declares a state of emergency.
In April 2018, the B612 Foundation reported "It's a 100 per cent certain we'll be hit [by a devastating asteroid], but we're not 100 per cent sure when." [126] Also in 2018, physicist Stephen Hawking , in his final book Brief Answers to the Big Questions , considered an asteroid collision to be the biggest threat to the planet.
Business and economy. 2018 China–United States trade war. The United States announces a 10% tariff on $200 billion worth of Chinese goods to start on September 24, increasing to 25% by the end of the year, and threatens tariffs on an additional $267 billion worth of imports if China retaliates.