DUTCH REFEREE ROB DIEPERINK DIES WEEKS AFTER REMOVAL FROM WORLD CUP OFFICIATING LIST. (PHOTO).
Dutch referee Rob Dieperink dies weeks after removal from World Cup officiating list Dutch referee Rob Dieperink has died at the age of 38, weeks after FIFA removed him from its list of officials for the World Cup. The Dutch Football Association (KNVB) confirmed his death in a statement, saying it was “shocked and deeply saddened” by the news. His cause of death has not been disclosed. Dieperink was arrested in April by the Metropolitan Police in the United Kingdom following a report of an alleged sexual assault involving a teenage boy in London. A Metropolitan Police spokesperson said officers responded on April 9 to a report of sexual assault at an address in Croydon and arrested a man in his 30s on suspicion of the offence. Police later said that after reviewing available evidence, including CCTV footage and digital devices, the investigation had concluded that “the evidential threshold had not been met” and no further action would be taken. Following the investigation, FIFA co...
According to an international broadcasting network,many people in Crimea have been holding pro-Russian rallies before sundays referendum.Russia has vetoed a draft UN resolution criticising sunday's secession referendum in Ukraine's Crimea region.The only security council member to vote against the measure.China regarded as a Russian ally on the issue,abstained from the vote.Western powers criticised Russian's veto over the referendum,which will ask Crimeans if they want to rejoin Russia.Kiev has accused Russian forces of seizing a village just north of Crimea and demanded they withdraw.Ukraine's foreign ministry said 80 military personnel backed by four helicopter gunships and threee armoured vehicle had taken the village of Strikove.An unnamed Russian official quoted by Pravda Ukraine said they had taken action to protect a gas distribution station from terrorist attacks.Russia intervened in the Crimean peninsula after the fall of Ukraine's pro-Moscow president Viktor Yanukovych on 22 February.Mr Yanukovych had sparked months of unrest across Ukraine by pulling out of a deal on closer ties with Russian .The Crimean region was part of Russia untill 1954 and most of it's residents are athnic Russian,many of whom would prefer to be governed by Moscow rather than Kiev.Russia's black sea fleet is also still housed in Crimea but Russia has signed agreements promising to uphold Ukraine's territorial intergrity.Crimea's regional parliament instigated the secession referendum after MPs voted overwhelmingly to support rejoining Russia.The national parliament in Kiev ruled the referendum unconstitional,and earlier on Saturday voted to disband the regional assembly.At the United Nations,13 members of the security council backed a resolution that called for all nations to respect Ukraines territorial intergrity and condemned the referendum as illegal. 
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