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ByNicolaeDumitrache and Shawn Pogatchnik The Associated Press ROSZKE, HUNGARY Hun- dreds of angry and frus- trated asylum-seekers broke through police lines Mon- day near Hungary's south- ern border with Serbia and began marching north to- ward Budapest, while Brit- ain and France pledged to take in tens of thousands more refugees to try to ease the crisis. As European leaders de- bated how to share respon- sibility for the more than 340,000 people from the Middle East, Africa and Asia who are already seek- ing refuge, Germany prom- ised to spend billions of eu- ros in extra aid for those already there and those yet to arrive. France weighed whether increased air- strikes against Islamic State militants would help to stem the flow of those fleeing Syria. But the Hungarian prime minister scoffed at a pro- posed quota system for ref- ugees in the 28-member European Union, saying it wouldn't work unless Eu- rope first secured its bor- ders. Hungary's inability to control the flow of people across its southern border with Serbia was on graphic display Monday. Crowds who had grown tired of waiting for buses at Hun- gary's first migrant hold- ing center near the border village of Roszke tore down flimsy police tape, advanced down a country road and walked around rows of po- lice trying to block them. Officers offered no resis- tance as about half of the 500-strong crowd reached the M5 highway that con- nects Serbia and Hungary. They headed north along the shoulder, raising their arms and chanting "Ger- many! Germany!" Police merely walked be- side them as a lone helicop- ter monitored the march- ers' progress north as dark- ness fell. The highway was blocked for nearly 30 miles as a precaution. The move mirrored Fri- day's surge of people from Budapest toward Austria in a traffic-snarling tactic that forced Hungary to concede defeat and bus thousands to the Austrian border. Germa- ny's rail company said Mon- day it had carried 22,000 asylum- seekers over the weekend on more than 100 trains, a number boosted by the fact that Hungary again has dropped visa checks on foreigners buying train tick- ets for the wealthier coun- tries to the west, particu- larly Germany. Following an overnight Cabinet meeting, Germany said it would set aside 6 bil- lion euros ($6.6 billion) to boost aid for asylum-seek- ers and hire 3,000 more fed- eral police. It also planned to make it easier to build refugee housing and for non-German speakers to hold jobs. German Chancellor An- gela Merkel reflected on what she called "a moving, in some parts breathtaking weekend behind us," when Austria and Germany threw open their borders for thou- sands of asylum-seekers trying to get out of Hun- gary. She said all EU coun- tries could help accommo- date the families fleeing war and poverty. Britain and France, seen as less generous than Ger- many so far, overcame re- luctance and stepped up their commitments Mon- day. British Prime Minis- ter David Cameron said his country would resettle up to 20,000 Syrians from camps in Turkey, Jordan and Syria over the next five years. "The whole country has been deeply moved by the heartbreaking images we have seen over the past few days," he told Parliament. "It is absolutely right that Britain should fulfill its moral responsibility to help those refugees." French President Fran- cois Hollande said his coun- try would take in 24,000 refugees over the next two years. To relieve the burden on Germany, he told Merkel that France would take in 1,000 of the migrants who have just arrived from Hun- gary. Most say they are flee- ing the 4-year-old civil war in Syria. Saying France has to target "the causes of these horrors," Hollande announced possible air- strikes against Islamic State targets in Syria, an idea he previously had re- sisted. France will send re- connaissance flights over Syria starting Tuesday, he said, and "we will be ready to strike." Calm returned Monday to the main Austrian-Hun- garian border point, where thousands crossed over the weekend by foot, bus, train and car after complain- ing of neglect and human rights violations in Hun- gary and refusing to stay in refugee camps there. Austrian Chancel- lor Werner Faymann and other EU leaders said Hun- garian Prime Minister Vik- tor Orban bungled Hunga- ry's intake of migrants so badly that it left Austria and Germany no choice but to open their borders Saturday. Orban compared Hun- gary to a "black sheep" rep- resenting a voice of reason in the European flock of countries. He argued that the EU first must focus on security measures to force those from troubled lands to seek asylum in neighboring countries, not in the heart of Europe. He said the cur- rent discussions on a new quota to handle 120,000 mi- grants soon would lead to discussions on hosting mil- lions more. MIGRANT CRISIS Hundreds break past police near Hungary border MARKODROBNJAKOVIC—THEASSOCIATEDPRESS A man holds his child as he tries to talk to Hungarian police officers in Roszke, Hungary, on Monday. By Sonia Perez D. The Associated Press GUATEMALACITY A citizen revolt against Guatemala's political establishment that helped oust former Presi- dent Otto Perez Molina in the midst of a corruption scandal appears to have continued at the ballot box. Voters choosing a new president Sunday rendered the pre-scandal favorite to third place, possibly shov- ing him out of the runoff in favor of a former television comedian with no political experience. But they showed their lukewarm enthusiasm for the entire slate of 14 candi- dates who most considered as representing the sta- tus quo in the small Cen- tral American country. The leader going into the Oct. 25 runoff, Jimmy Morales, only got 24 percent of the vote with nearly 98 percent of ballots counted Monday. Longtime politician Manuel Baldizon, who was widely expected to be the next president before the customs corruption scan- dal took down top govern- ment officials, was in a fight to make the runoff, virtu- ally tied with former first lady Sandra Torres at 19.6 percent. He trailed Torres by less than 1,000 votes of more than 5 million cast. "This is the political col- lapse of Manuel Baldizon that no one could have imagined," said Daniel Haering, professor at the University of Francisco Marroquin government school. "From now on, Gua- temalan politicians are go- ing to have to respond to various political demands of the people." Luis Fernando Mack, a professor at the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences in Guatemala, said the electoral tribunal has a delicate situation on its hands and important deci- sions to make to resolve the fight for second place. "The fight will be fierce, they're going to fight for ev- ery vote," Mack said. The candidates in Sun- day's election faced an un- comfortable challenge: try- ing to win popular support in a nation where Perez Mo- lina remains in court cus- tody awaiting a decision on whether he will be tried on graft charges. Most of the candidates were old-guard figures picked to run before ener- gized prosecutors backed by a mass anti-corruption movement toppled Perez Molina's administration. Many voters were so skep- tical that they campaigned for the election itself to be postponed to give them a new crop of choices. Morales boasted of his outsider status and said he is part of the uprising against corruption. 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