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Manchester United have confirmed the signing of Morgan Schneiderlin from Southampton taking the club's summer spending towards £80million. The France midfielder, who wanted to leave St Mary's last summer, joins Old Trafford in a deal worth £25m to end one of the summer's longest running transfer sagas. The 25-year-old has signed a four-year deal with an option for a fifth and joins Bastian Schweinsteiger, who was also announced on Monday, Matteo Darmian and Memphis Depay as the club's other big-money arrivals ahead of the new season. 'I am delighted to be a Manchester United player,' Schneiderlin told manutd.com. 'Once I learned that United were interested in signing me, it was a very easy decision to make.Morgan Schneiderlin has joined Manchester United from SouthamptonThe midfielder completed his £25million move to Old Trafford on MondayHe joins Bastian Schweinsteiger in signing for Louis van Gaal's sideCLICK HERE to see how Manchester United could line up next season 
 Question:United had been in discussions with Southampton for several weeks about _ as the south coast club held out for as much money as possible.
Morgan Schneiderlin

Havana, Cuba (CNN) Hurricane Irma, which devastated much of the Caribbean in September, has claimed a new victim: Raul Castro's succession plans. On Thursday, Cuban officials said the island was still dealing with the aftermath of the killer storm and needed to postpone long-held plans for Castro, 86, to retire on February 24, 2018, when his second five-year term ends. It was to have been the first time that Cuba was ruled by a leader not named Castro since the 1959 revolution that swept Raul Castro's older brother Fidel Castro to power. The wrath of Irma, however, delayed the Communist-run island's single party elections process, which appoints the Cuban National Assembly that in turn selects Cuba's president.Cuba, dealing with Hurricane Irma aftermath, says Castro will retire in April instead of FebruaryCastro has indicated first Vice President Miguel-Diaz Canel has his blessing to be the next president 
 Question:"My second and last term will have concluded," _ told Cuban lawmakers on Thursday, "and Cuba will have a new president."
Raul Castro

Two West Virginia officers were shot and wounded Thursday in a traffic stop on Interstate 64 that led to the discovery of two bodies. According to state police Lt. Michael Baylous, two police officers from the town of Lewisburg pulled over a white Chevrolet SUV with North Carolina plates after learning it had been reported stolen. As the officers were conducting the traffic stop, a red Chevrolet truck pulled alongside them and the driver "pulled a handgun and shot at both officers," Baylous said. Group: Ambush attacks on officers increases The drivers of both Chevrolets then fled: the red truck "went over the hillside and was eventually taken into custody," while the other motorist "drove behind a guardrail on the interstate and hid for a short amount of time," according to Baylous.State police: Motorist shoots at cops after they pull over sonPolice find two bodies, believed to be from North Carolina, in one of the vehiclesDrivers facing charges 
 Question:"It is believed that the victims are from _," Baylous said.

North Carolina