Good Morning Australia!! - Results in the contentious French Presidential election come in - A noted conservationist is shot in Africa - One of the world's most-recognized child stars dies in apparent poverty - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

Officials are tallying up the vote from the first round of France's presidential election, and it seems certain that centrist Emmanual Macron and neo-fascist hate-monger Marine Le Pen will advance to the second round next month.  The divisive contest had seen surging support on both the Left and far-right ends of the political spectrum while the mainstream parties have under-performed in the polls, and if the France 2 projection holds neither of the mainstream parties will be represented in the second round.  Where the candidates await the results says a lot:  Far-right xenophobe Le Pen is holed up in her lily-white home district away from the cities in the north of France; the mainstream parties are holding traditional events in conference centers and hotel ballrooms in downtown Paris; True Leftist Jean-Luc Melenchon is with supporters in a bar in the bohemian and urban 10th Arrondissement of Paris.

The Federal government will restore community legal funding after the legal sector complained its ability to serve vulnerable Australians was being compromised.  Attorney-General George Brandis said this would mean prioritizing domestic and family violence services, which "have been waiting and hoping that the Government would see their point of view and we have done that and delivered for them".  The plan restores AU$55.7 Million to the sector over three years, including $16.7 million for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander legal services.

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An Italian prosecutor is accusing aid groups of coordinating with the Libyan people smugglers who send over-packed boats of would-be refugees across the Mediterranean Sea.  Carmelo Zuccaro told La Stampa that he believes phone calls were placed from Libya to rescue vessels.  The air groups are denying the allegations, saying their only concern is to save lives.

Conservationist Kuki Gallman has been shot and wounded in Kenya, a few weeks after suspected cattle herders burned down her eco-safari lodge at her conservation park in central Kenya.  She's been flown to hospital in Nairobi for treatment.  The cattle herders are facing a drought in the region and have been invading private properties in search of grazing and water.  Gallman is the author of "I Dreamed of Africa", which was turned into a film starring Kim Basinger.

How is North Korea trying to prod the US today?  The state-run newspaper threatened to sink the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson when it arrives with its battle group off of the Korean Peninsula sometime this week.  "Our revolutionary forces are combat-ready to sink a US nuclear-powered aircraft carrier with a single strike," the commentary read, without specifics - typical of bombastic North Korean crapaganda.  This comes after the Trump administration said it was through with the "strategic patience" of the past.  Meanwhile, South Korean media is reporting that the North detained a US citizen, possibly a Korean-America, who was there in connection with relief programs.  Two other Americans are being held; one on spying charges, another for stealing a propaganda sign from a hotel.

Ecuador fined seven corporate media outlets for failing to report the story of opposition leader and failed presidential candidate Guillermo Lasso's offshore financial dealings.  The report titled "Lasso: the offshore tycoon" was first published by an Argentinian newspaper and picked up by other Ecuadorean news outlets in the run-up to this month's presidential election which Vice President Lenin Moreno won.  But the bigger, right-leaning organizations ignored the report.  A free press group called Fundamedios says the government has no business making itself the "editor of all media, deciding what to publish or not".  

Former Happy Days actress Erin Moran is dead at the young age of 56, and the cause of death is being determined.  She played little sister Joanie Cunningham on the show's ten-year run, and again the character on its short-lived spin-off "Joanie Loves Chachi".  Life after Hollywood wasn't kind to the former child actress, and she struggled with bad marriages, drug and alcohol abuse, and periods of homelessness.  The rest of the show's cast remembered the good times:  "Such sad, sad news.  RIP Erin," tweeted film director Ron Howard, "I'll always choose to remember you on our show making scenes better, getting laughs, and lighting up TV screens."