Zimbabwe -- Mugabe 'paid Israeli spy to frame opposition leader'***A former Israeli intelligence officer has earned more than US$450,000 (£290,000) from President Robert Mugabe, partly as a reward for framing the Zimbabwean leader's main political opponent, officials in the government revealed yesterday. Mr Mugabe's chief political foe, Morgan Tsvangirai, leader of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), faces hanging or life in jail if convicted of high treason over an alleged plot to kill President Mugabe. He is to appear in court to answer the charges next month. The Zimbabwe government is using grainy video footage of a meeting Ari Ben-Menashe held with Mr Tsvangirai in Montreal as the basis of its evidence against the opposition leader.***