In Mozambique, opposition politician Venancio Mondlane has been hit with five criminal charges, including instigation to terrorism, following last year’s post-election unrest.

Mondlane, a fierce critic of the ruling FRELIMO party, says he’s being targeted for exposing what he calls “massive electoral fraud” during the October 9 election. That vote was won by President Daniel Chapo.

After the election, Mondlane led months of protests that spread across the country. The violence left at least 400 dead and 600 injured, allegedly at the hands of police.

Now, 31 officers are facing trial for their roles.

Mondlane says he’s entering court with a clear conscience and an international legal team. He accuses the Chapo government of betraying a peace deal they both signed in March.

That agreement had sparked hope, leading to new reforms and a national reconciliation law passed in April.

But tensions are rising again, and Mozambique’s fragile democracy hangs in the balance.

President Donald Trump baselessly accused former president Barack Obama and others of illegally plotting against him, calling it “treason” and declaring: “It’s time to go after people.”

Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office Tuesday during a meeting with Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., Trump listed Obama, Hillary Clinton, former FBI Director James Comey, former Director of National Intelligence John Brennan and others who he accused of plotting against him and attempting to “rig the election.”

“After what they did to me, whether it’s right or wrong, it’s time to go after people,” Trump said from the Oval Office as he repeated a baseless claim former President Barack Obama and other officials had engaged in treason.

Trump was not making his claims for the first time, but he delivered them when administration officials are harnessing the machinery of the federal government to investigate the targets of Trump’s derision, including key officials responsible for scrutinizing Russia’s attempts to intervene on Trump’s behalf in 2016.

Trump’s tirade unfolded against the backdrop of a new report from Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard that represented his administration’s latest attempt to rewrite the history of the Russia investigation, which has infuriated him for years.

The report, released Friday, downplayed the extent of Russian interference in the 2016 election by highlighting Obama administration emails showing officials had concluded before and after the contest that Moscow had not hacked state election systems to manipulate votes in Trump’s favor.

But Obama’s Democratic administration never suggested otherwise even as it exposed other means by which Russia interfered in the election, including through a massive hack-and-leak operation of Democratic emails by intelligence operatives working with WikiLeaks, as well as a covert foreign influence campaign aimed at swaying public opinion and sowing discord through fake social media posts.

Democrats swiftly decried the report as factually flawed and politically motivated.

Russia’s broad interference in 2016 has been established through a series of investigations, including special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation and a thorough 2020 Senate Intelligence Committee report that was completed when the panel was led by Republican Sen. Marco Rubio, who’s now Trump’s secretary of state.

A British man who dreamed of looking like James Bond was convicted on Tuesday of attempting to spy for Russia.

Howard Phillips, 65, attempted to pass information about former Defence Secretary Grant Shapps to two men he believed to be Russian agents. In reality, they were undercover British secret agents.

The jury at Winchester Crown Court found Howard Phillips guilty of aiding what he believed to be a foreign intelligence agency. The unanimous verdict was reached after four hours of deliberation.

He has been remanded in custody and will be sentenced in the autumn. No specific date has been set.

Prosecutors said Mr Phillips had offered to pass on Mr Shapps’ details and the location where he kept his private plane to ‘allow the Russians to eavesdrop on British defence plans’.

The defendant’s ex-wife told the court that Phillips dreamed of being like James Bond’ and that he watched films about the British secret service because he was ‘infatuated’ with it.

Bethan David, head of the Crown Prosecution Service’s counter-terrorism division, said the conviction sent a clear message to anyone considering spying for Russia.

‘Mr Phillips was brazen in his pursuit of financial gain, with no regard for the potential harm caused to his own country,’ Ms David said.