Lawyers

• Argentinian Ex-Cabinet Chief Anibal Fernandez charged with fraud against the state

  Anibal Fernandez, a loyal ally and the former chief of staff of Argentinian president Cristina Fernandez, has been charged by a judge for committing fraud against the state. He has been accused of reaping benefits from a government program that gives free medicine and cribs to poor familiies.

• Lula throws weight behind Scioli's bid for Argentina presidency

  Brazil's popular but scandal-weary former leader Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva endorsed Argentina's ruling party presidential candidate on Wednesday, shoring up Daniel Scioli's credentials with the political left a month and a half before the election.

• Argentine president met Edward Snowden in Moscow: lawyer

  Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez held talks with U.S. whistleblower Edward Snowden during a visit to Russia in April, Anthony Romero, director of the American Civil Liberties Union and one of Snowden's lawyers said on Thursday.

• Long arm of U.S. law may struggle to reach all FIFA defendants

  U.S. prosecutors may find it difficult to get a number of the people they have charged in the FIFA bribery scandal to face the music. Several cannot be found, and the authorities in some countries may not agree to extradition requests.

• Cleared of cover-up charges, Argentine leader comes out swinging

  Argentina's scandal-hit president came out swinging with a fiery speech about justice on Sunday, retaking the initiative three days after being cleared of allegations that she tried to derail an investigation into a deadly 1994 bombing in Buenos Aires.

• Argentine judge says no evidence government tried to derail bombing probe

  There is no evidence that President Cristina Fernandez tried to whitewash Iran's purported involvement in a deadly 1994 bombing, an Argentine judge told Reuters in an interview on Thursday after dismissing the case.

• Argentines demand independent judiciary in huge street march

  Tens of thousands of protesters marched peacefully through the Argentine capital on Wednesday demanding an independent judiciary, as the country reels from the death of a state prosecutor who had been investigating the president.

• Top officials close rank around Argentina's embattled president

  Top government officials rallied behind Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez on Saturday after a state prosecutor said he would keep investigating accusations that she tried to cover up Iran's alleged involvement in a 1994 bombing.

• Argentina prosecutor goes ahead with Fernandez cover-up case

  An Argentine prosecutor on Friday said he was taking over an investigation into claims President Cristina Fernandez tried to cover up Iran's role in a 1994 bombing, after the previous prosecutor died mysteriously last month.

• Ex wife of dead Argentine prosecutor says 'stop politicizing' case

  The investigation into the death of an Argentine prosecutor who leveled criminal charges against the president has become too politicized and needs the involvement of a regional human rights commission, the dead man's ex wife said on Thursday.

• Argentina fails to find ex-spy chief tied to dead prosecutor case

  Argentine investigators failed on Thursday to track down a former spymaster wanted for questioning over the death of a prosecutor who had accused President Cristina Fernandez of covering up Iran's alleged role in the 1994 bombing of a Jewish center.

• Argentina's Fernandez makes diplomatic gaffe on China trip

  Argentine President Cristina Fernandez, on a tour of China to strengthen ties as the economy teeters on the brink of a recession, appeared to commit a diplomatic blunder on Wednesday by poking fun at how the Chinese speak.

• Dead Argentine prosecutor had drafted request for president's arrest

  An Argentine prosecutor found dead in mysterious circumstances last month had drafted a request that President Cristina Fernandez be arrested for conspiring to derail his probe into the deadly bombing of a Jewish center, the investigator into his death said on Tuesday.

• At root of Argentina spy intrigue: a deal with Iran

  President Cristina Fernandez has portrayed Argentina's spy agency as sinister, accountable to no one, and possibly responsible for the mysterious death of a prominent prosecutor in his Buenos Aires apartment.

• Journalist who broke news of prosecutor's death flees Argentina

  The first journalist to report on the death of a Argentine state prosecutor, who was investigating the deadly 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, said on Saturday that he had fled Argentina fearing for his life.

• Argentina suspects rogue agents were behind death of prosecutor

  Argentina suspects rogue agents from its own intelligence services were behind the death of a state prosecutor investigating the deadly 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires.

• Argentina says dead prosecutor tricked into accusing Fernandez

  A prosecutor who accused Argentina's president of trying to derail the investigation into a 1994 bombing, and who died in mysterious circumstances on Sunday, was misled to believe there was a conspiracy to whitewash the crime, the government said on Wednesday.

• Argentine prosecutor who accused Fernandez of Iran plot found dead

  The Argentine prosecutor who accused President Cristina Fernandez of orchestrating a cover-up in the investigation of Iran over the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center has been found dead in his apartment, authorities said on Monday.

• U.S. judge orders Argentina to stop servicing exchange bonds locally

  A U.S. judge said on Friday Argentina must reverse the steps it has taken to evade his orders in a longstanding dispute with hedge funds over debt the country defaulted on in 2002.