Cairo - State TV has announced that Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has sworn in a new Cabinet, replacing one dissolved as a concession to unprecedented anti-government protests.
In the most significant change, the interior minister - who heads internal security forces - was replaced. A retired police general, Mahmoud Wagdi, was named to replace Habib el-Adly, who is widely despised by protesters for brutality shown by security forces.
Mubarak has retained his long-serving defence minister, Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, and his foreign minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit.