Gardaí are investigating a machete attack on a woman in a village in the west of Ireland that prompted a public meeting.

A man has been arrested after a woman was found locked in a car and a two-foot-long machete recovered, police have said.

A woman in her 20s is recovering from a machete attack in Galway.

The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for Saturday's machete attack on two policewomen in Belgium.

A Syrian asylum seeker has killed a woman with a machete and wounded two others outside a bus station in the south-western German city of Reutlingen before being arrested.

A 17-year-old has been jailed for life after hacking a fellow teenager to death with a "zombie Killer" machete.

A pitiless attacker struck a 50-year-old woman repeatedly in the head with a 2ft machete as he demanded cash writes Liam Heylin.

A teenager armed with a machete has attacked a Jewish teacher in southern France, invoking IS group and saying he had also planned to go after police.

St Stephen's Day shoppers have fled in panic after two men became embroiled in a fight believed to have involved knives in England.

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A 19-year-old American student had her skull fractured by a man who walked up behind her and swung a two-foot machete at her head before robbing her.

Two men have been remanded in custody after being charged in connection with a spate of robberies in Cork City last week in which people were attacked with a machete.