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.

The retrial of ousted president Hosni Mubarak, alongside other defendants, was postponed to Wednesday by the Cairo Criminal Court, the third delay this week.

The trial of Kirollos Shawki, a Christian man from a village near Luxor accused of contempt of religion, has been postponed until 24 June.

Egypt's Mineral Resources Authority (EMRA) has submitted a draft law to the petroleum ministry which, if approved, will raise the rental value for mines by nearly a whopping 20,000 percent.

An Egyptian court sentenced on Monday 28 defendants to life sentence and 15 to three years on charges of violating the country's controversial protest law.

A group of activists has created a trending hashtag on Twitter that translates to "we are being watched" in response to Egypt's launching of a security system to monitor online activities.

Ahmed Hanafy, member of the Hamdeen Sabbahi legal campaign committee, said on Sunday that Sabbahi is starting procedures to convert the Popular Trend into a political party within 10 days as a prelude to contesting the parliamentary elections.

The Cairo Criminal Court on Sunday decided to postpone the trial of former President Hosni Mubarak, his sons Alaa and Gamal, his Interior Minister Habib al-Adly and six of his aides in a case known as the "Trial of the Century” to 3 June to hear the defense.

Egypt’s elections committee said on Sunday it had rejected a defeated presidential candidate’s appeal against voting results that gave former army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi a landslide victory.

The British government has described the Egyptian presidential election as important step towards a democratic transition in Egypt.