Egypt’s interim cabinet headed by Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab resigned Monday after Abdel Fatah al-Sisi took the presidential oath Sunday evening.

Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi reappointed on Monday the country's prime minister Ibrahim Mahlab to head a caretaker government shortly after he handed in his notice, Al-Ahram's Arabic news website reported.

Cairo Criminal Court adjourned on Monday retrial of ousted President Hosni Mubarak, his sons Alaa and Gamal, former Interior Minister Habib al-Adly and six former top security deputies over killing protesters during January 2011 revolution to 14 June.

Alexandria's criminal court ordered on Monday the release of Mohamed El-Sheimy, a police officer accused of torturing Sayed Belal to death during investigations into a bomb attack at the Two Saints Church in the Mediterranean city in 2011.

On Monday, Minister of Antiquities Mohamed Ibrahim said that the Spanish archaeological mission discovered a tomb of a senior statesman from ancient Egypt's eleventh dynasty in the Zeraa Abul Naga district of Luxor.

Egypt's new President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said the word "Egypt" seventeen times in his first speech as president after his inauguration on Sunday.

Egypt's interim President Adli Mansour, who handed over power to former army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi earlier, was granted the Order of the Nile, the country's highest state honor, on Sunday.

The interim government will hold its last meetings Monday morning, before tendering its resignation to newly elected President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, Youm7 reported Sunday.

Qatari news agency QNA reported Sunday that the Qatari Interior Minister Abdallah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani, and Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani dispatched a congratulatory cable to Egypt's new President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, welcoming him into office.

Field Marshal Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi was officially sworn in as Egypt's president on Sunday, becoming the country's second democratically-elected president since the 2011 ouster of long-time autocrat Hosni Mubarak.

Just 48 hours before he is to leave office and return to his original position as head of Egypt's Supreme Constitutional Court, Egypt's outgoing interim President Adly Mansour signed into law a number of pieces of legislation on Thursday evening dealing with a wide range of topics, from sexual harassment to who can preach in mosques.

The Japanese Foreign Ministry sent president-elect Abdel Fatah al-Sisi its congratulations, describing the presidential election a “step towards political normalization in Egypt based on the roadmap.”

The Foreign Ministry on Thursday advised Egyptian citizens to leave Ukraine, where military hostilities between Ukrainian forces and pro-Russian separatists have escalated.

The number of seats of Egypt's House of Representatives, or lower house of parliament, will be decreased from an originally proposed figure of 630 to 567, said Mahmoud Fawzi, spokesman of the technical committee in charge of recently amending Egypt's parliamentary election laws.

Ex-army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who ousted Egypt's first freely-elected leader, will be sworn in as president on Sunday after he overwhelmingly won last week's election, state media reported.

Concluding his term as interim president, outgoing President Adly Mansour thanked the people of Egypt in his farewell speech, delivered on Wednesday afternoon.

The United States said today it will work with Egyptian president-elect Abdel Fattah al-Sisi but urged him to carry out human rights reforms.

Egypt's currency black market is under threat from two directions, as aid from wealthy Gulf states promises to ease a dollar shortage and an increasingly confident central bank engineers a gradual depreciation of the Egyptian pound.

Countries from across the globe were quick to offer president-elect Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi congratulatory messages, with some urging him to adopt reforms and guarantee rights.

Egypt's Presidential Election Commission is Tuesday expected to officially name former army chief Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi as the country's next president.

A fire at a telecommunications cable in Egypt has caused internet disruptions throughout parts of the country, disrupting business flow, head of Egypt's Telecommunication's Regulatory Authority told Reuters on Tuesday.