BAGHDAD -- Bombings took the lives of at least 21 Iraqis yesterday, including three children and six adults, when an explosive on a horse-drawn cart went off in an attack on a primary school in Mosul.

While bombings often kill civilians as they go about their daily lives, few attacks have been aimed at places specifically frequented by children. In this case, the blast took place as pupils were leaving school for the day in a Sunni area of the city. Eighteen of the 22 injured were children.

A day earlier, a suicide bomb killed 16 people in Mosul. The city remains in the grip of an entrenched insurgency that neither the Iraqi army nor the American military has been able to eradicate.

Also yesterday, the Iraqi High Tribunal, which tries crimes committed by the government of Saddam Hussein, sentenced to death for a second time Saddam's cousin Ali Hassan al-Majid, better known as Chemical Ali, for his part in crushing the 1991 Shiite uprising.

LONDON -- Radical Muslim cleric Abu Qatada -- once described as Osama bin Laden's ambassador in Europe -- was ordered jailed yesterday by a British judge because of fears he was preparing to abscond.

Abu Qatada had been released in June under strict bail conditions that allowed him to leave his home for no more than two hours a day.

Abu Qatada, who arrived in the U.K. in 1993, was jailed in 2002 over accusations that he played a key role in raising money for extremist groups and provided spiritual advice to militants planning terror attacks. The bail provisions set in June included bans on attending any mosques and lecturing or leading prayers.

The British government has been trying to deport Abu Qatada -- whose real name is Omar Mahmoud Mohammed Othman -- to Jordan, where he has been convicted of terrorist offenses. But British courts have ruled that he could face torture related to two bombings there.

NAIROBI, Kenya -- Six Somali pirates, riding in two skiffs and firing rifle shots at the gleaming U.S. cruise ship, were outrun in minutes when the captain of M/S Nautica gunned the engine and sped away, a spokesman for the company said yesterday. The incident happened Sunday in the Gulf of Aden.

Still, the implications had the pirates hijacked the ship added a new dimension to the piracy scourge, as NATO foreign ministers groped for solutions at a meeting in Brussels and the United Nations extended an international piracy-fighting mandate for another year.

A cargo ship carrying a load of road salt to French-owned islands off eastern Canada capsized and sank yesterday off Newfoundland, triggering a search for the four crewmen. Mike Bonin, a search-and-rescue spokesman, said an empty lifeboat had been found off Marystown, Newfoundland. Another officialsaid winds in the area were about 30 miles per hour around the time the121-foot-long vessel sank in about 425 feet of water...Russian warships have ended training exercises with Venezuela's navy in Moscow's first such Caribbean deployment since the Cold War. The Russian ships arrived in Venezuela last week in an operation widely seen as a show of Kremlin anger over the U.S. decision to deliver aid to Georgia aboard warships following that country's conflict with Russia.