World War II

World War II

Visitors pray in front of the cenotaph dedicated to the victims of the atomic bombing ahead of a ceremony to mark the anniversary of the bombing at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima, western Japan, 6 August, 2026. Photo: UNB/AP

Hiroshima marks 81st atomic bombing anniversary

Hiroshima marks the 81st anniversary of the US atomic bombing, with Mayor Kazumi Matsui urging global powers to abandon nuclear deterrence.

The shells, which were discovered by workers while they were excavating a drain in the Dewanhat area on 12 April 2026. Photo: TBS

3 unexploded WWII-era shells recovered in Ctg; safely defused

Photo: TBS

1 grave found empty, 23 other WWII Japanese soldiers’ remains repatriated

The Mainamati War Cemetery is the burial site of 738 soldiers who died between 1941 and 1945 during World War II. Photo: Collected

Home after 81 years: Japan repatriates remains of 24 WWII soldiers’ from Cumilla

A drone view shows a shipwreck in the river Danube due to a severe drought near Mohacs, Hungary, September 10, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Marton Monus

Low Danube reveals sunken World War Two ships in Serbia, Hungary

Atomic bomb mushroom clouds over Hiroshima (left) and Nagasaki (right). Photo: Wikipedia

Nagasaki Day 2023: 78th anniversary of US atomic bombing

Teruko Yahata (85), a World War Two Hiroshima atomic bombing survivor, speaks about her story of the horrors of Hiroshima to foreign visitors at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum in Hiroshima, western Japan May 9, 2023. REUTERS/Tom Bateman

In her own words: A Hiroshima bomb survivor learns English to tell her story

Oprah Winfrey returning to acting in World War II movie 'Six Triple Eight'

Oprah Winfrey returning to acting in World War II movie 'Six Triple Eight'

Russian President Vladimir Putin takes part in a video conference with a group of award-winning teachers at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence outside Moscow, Russia, October 5, 2022. Sputnik/Gavriil Grigorov/Kremlin via REUTERS

Putin says world faces most dangerous decade since World War Two

Photo: Minhaj Uddin/TBS

A piece of World War II history in Chattogram

Poland's Deputy Prime Minister and Law and Justice (PiS) party leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski. Photo: Reuters

Poland puts its WW2 losses at $1.3 trillion, demands German reparations

Soviet soldiers fighting in the rubble of Stalingrad, February 1943 during second world war. Photo: Collected

Countries still owing reparations after two world wars

A radial engine of a second world war aeroplane with missing propeller blades lies in the opening of a stream in Bandarban. Photo: Inam Ahmed

An intriguing relic of World War II lies deep in the hills