The BBC has been given access to Kabul's main jail, where former Taliban inmates are now caretakers.
Mr Modi told Ms Harris, the first south Asian US vice-president, India was "waiting to welcome" her.
Hundreds of homes have been destroyed and thousands displaced since the volcano erupted on Sunday.
A posh building on NYC's Billionaire Row has been facing a series of serious woes.
"We'll move heaven and earth to do whatever we can to make sure that shortages are alleviated," one government minister said.
For many experts, it is perhaps the starkest example yet of how Washington's focus has shifted away from its old European allies.
Spain accuses the former president of the Catalonia region of sedition, and wants him extradited.
One man tells how he trekked through jungle with his young son, seeing fellow migrants' dead bodies.
Mexico is the second-most Catholic country in the world and the Supreme Court there has decriminalized abortion. NBC News' Priscilla Thompson explains what this means for people in the country.
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