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Proof: Ship sunk with crew missing after brazen strike inside NATO member's waters

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{"first_seen":"2026-10-07T00:52:46Z","headline":"Ship sunk with crew missing after brazen strike inside NATO member's waters","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"foxnews","url":"https://www.foxnews.com/world/drone-strike-sinks-ship-nato-waters-zelenskyy-warns-looming-massive-strike","v":1}

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0729fe96b2d340b6c6cb901a03337904bdabc2b4f5cf751f64b53731bfd399c4

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Confirmed in Bitcoin block 970266, mined 2026-10-07 01:15 UTC.

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  1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-0729fe96b2d3.json prints 0729fe96b2d340b6c6cb901a03337904bdabc2b4f5cf751f64b53731bfd399c4. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
  2. Drop headline-0729fe96b2d3.json and headline-0729fe96b2d3.json.ots onto opentimestamps.org, which checks the receipt against the Bitcoin block chain. Or, with the OpenTimestamps client and a Bitcoin node: ots verify headline-0729fe96b2d3.json.ots (ots upgrade first while the receipt is pending).
  3. Open the Wayback Machine's captures above: the capture of the record page shows this hash as it stood then, and the capture of the story page shows the newsroom's own page.

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