According to France 24, France is experiencing a severe heatwave, with forecasters expecting temperatures to peak at forty-three degrees Celsius in the southwest. The government has convened a crisis meeting to address the emergency, amid warnings from meteorologists that this episode could match the deadly intensity of the two thousand three heatwave, which claimed the lives of nearly fifteen thousand people across the country.

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