Vatican prosecutors have seemingly defied an appeals court order to turn over to the defense all the evidence gathered in the Vatican’s big financial trial. Prosecutors said in a three-page letter on Thursday that they would allow the appeals court judges to consult the material. But they didn’t deposit the documentation for the defense to see in the chancery as ordered. Prosecutors said that it was “irrelevant” to the trial and could harm the Vatican’s interests. The prosecutors' position sets the stage for another clash in the long-running case. It wasn’t immediately clear how the appeals court would respond. The next hearing is scheduled for June 22.

Harvey Weinstein’s lawyers are getting their chance to query his accuser at his rape retrial. It’s the third time she has had to answer his lawyers’ questions in a New York court. But different attorneys are now defending the onetime Hollywood powerbroker. Their cross-examination began Wednesday and resumed Thursday. The 73-year-old Weinstein is in the midst of his third trial on a charge of raping the woman in a New York hotel in 2013. The two also had a consensual sexual relationship, and his lawyers maintain that she was a willing partner in everything that happened.

South Korean appeals court on Wednesday sentenced ousted President Yoon Suk Yeol to seven years in prison for resisting arrest and bypassing a legitimate Cabinet meeting before his brief imposition of martial law in December 2024. The conviction for obstruction of justice and other charges comes on top of a life sentence he has already received on rebellion charges stemming from his baffling authoritarian push, which triggered the most serious crisis for the country’s democracy in decades.