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VIDEO: There are more than 650,000 restaurants in the United States, enough to satisfy the pickiest eater. New venues open every day, yet staying in business with such tremendous competition is no easy task. One Boston restaurant has been able to stay open for nearly 200 years.

VIDEO: VOA contributor Greta Van Susteren interviewed U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in Mexico City, Oct. 19, 2018, where Pompeo met with officials from the existing government as well as the newly elected ones.

VIDEO: For many people, boating is considered a recreational activity, but in many parts of the world, including Srinagar, Kashmir – it is a way of life – giving ‘life on the water’ a very literal meaning. Lakes in the area have been home to houseboats for decades and the colorful imagery and the designs are a must see for tourists.

While domestic concerns dominate much of the political debate ahead of next month’s U.S. midterm elections, Democratic lawmakers say they are eager to assert themselves on foreign affairs and, when necessary, provide a check on the Trump administration if they win control of at least one chamber of Congress in November.

U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley strongly condemned Iran for its alleged recruitment and use of child soldiers in battlefields across the Middle East. Haley’s remarks came two days after the U.S.Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control announced new sanctions targeting businesses that provide financial support to the Basij Resistance Force, a paramilitary force under the command of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corp.