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The United States and the European Union announced Friday that they would halt payments to the Hamas-led Palestinian government but that aid would flow to Palestinians through the United Nations and other independent organizations. The European Union's foreign ministers were to meet Monday in Luxembourg to discuss how to carry out their cutoff, but a spokeswoman said on Friday that the outlines of what it would do were already clear. The European Union has been the Palestinian Authority's largest donor since the government was created under the 1993 Oslo peace accords.