Podcast: Adapting to heat, France's fitness boom, Paris Mosque at 100

France is facing one of its record-breaking heatwaves, raising urgent questions about how the country will adapt to a warming climate. But amid these challenges, French culture is shifting in unexpected ways. A fitness boom is sweeping the nation, driven in part by the country's most popular YouTuber. And the Grand Mosque of Paris is marking its centenary—a hundred years since its opening—celebrating a milestone that embodies both its role as a symbol of Islam in France and its position as an ongoing source of political debate. According to RFI, these three stories reveal how France is transforming.

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